Includes biographical notes, curriculum vitae, publications list, correspondence, clippings and speech notes re Professor Ralph Piddington (1906-1974), prepared by Dame Joan Metge in compiling her entry for Piddington in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Professor Ralph Piddington was the first Professor of Anthropology at the University of Auckland, appointed 1949. Associated materials: Metge's papers re modern Maori society at MSS & Archives 89/37.