Museum notes, of which 23 numbers eventually appeared. In 1916 Sketches and Reminiscences from Queensland, Russia and Elsewhere, was privately printed. His health was not robust and in August 1924 he resigned from the museum, but continued to help in its work when his health permitted. Roth died on 12 May 1925 and was survived by his wife (Nancy Harriette, née Haigh) and two sons. Legacy Roth was a modest man, his work in anthropology was very largely based on the fieldwork of other men, but he had a talent for collating information and records, and his volumes on the Tasmanian aborigines and the natives of Sarawak and North Borneo were standard books. Roth's work has not been fully appreciated; a list of his publications will be found in Man for July 1925. Henry Ling Roth's collection of books was acquired by the library of the University of Manchester in 1917. References Gorman, A.C. 2008 The primitive body and colonial administration: Henry Ling Roth's approach to body modification. In Russell McDougall and Iain Davidson (eds) The Roth Family: Anthropology and Colonial Administration, pp 93–103, Left Coast Press, Walnut Creek CA External links Henry Ling Roth Papers at the John Rylands Library, Manchester. 1855 births 1925 deaths English anthropologists People educated at University College School