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- General note - German Filipinologist Adolf Bernhard Meyer was an anthropologist-zoologist born in Hamburg on October11, 1840. Son of a businessman,he studied medicine and natural history at the Universities of Gottingen, Vienna, Zurich and Berlin. In 1870, he traveled to the Orient, visiting principally the Celebes, the Philippines and New Guinea. In the Phlippines where he stayed for some time, he lived in Luzon, Panay, Cebu and Negros and conducted scientific studies on the archipelago. In 1874, he was called to Dresden to organize and take charge of the Real Museo de Historia Natural y Ethografico and to serve as an adviser to the King of Saxony. From 1906 up to the time he died in Dresden in April , 1911, he stayed in Berlin where he continued with his scientific studies. Dr. Meyer has published about 88 monographs on the Philippines on varied scientific subjects, such as "Etnografia de Norte de Luzon y de los Negritos," and articles on Philippine fishes, birds, system of wrtiting of the Manguians of Mindoro, and a comparative study of the dialects of the Philippines, Borneo and Celebes. He was considered as an authority of museology, anthropology and natural history.
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