- Author: R. H. Mathews Author Record # 270713
- Legal Name: Mathews, Robert Hamilton
- Birthplace: Narellan, New South Wales, Australia
- Birthdate: 21 April 1841
- Deathdate: 22 May 1918
- Language: English
- Webpages: adb.anu.edu.au, Wikipedia-EN
- Note: Australian surveyor & amateur anthropologist. The son of Irish Protestants, his research on the tribes of New South Wales led to disagreements with more "learned" colleagues whose campaign against him led to his work being ignored for many years. His views disputing the theory of "group marriage" especially was later vindicated.
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Short Fiction
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Why Fishes Inhabit the Water (1908)
only appeared as:
- Variant: A Fish Story (1910) [as by uncredited]