“ On his retirement Haddon was made honorary keeper of the rich collections from New Guinea which the Cambridge Museum possesses, and also wrote up the remaining parts of the Torres Straits Reports, which his busy teaching and administrative life had forced him to set aside. His help and counsel to younger men was then still more freely at their service, and as always he continually laid aside his own work to help them with theirs. ”

“ His first publications were "An Introduction to Embryology" in 1887, and various papers on marine biology, which led to his being invited to go to Torres Straits to study coral reefs and marine zoology, and while thus engaged he first became attracted to anthropology [sic.] ”