Huxley Memorial Medal and Lecture

Abstract

THE presentation of the Huxley Memorial Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute for 1932 to Prof. C. G. Seligman will take place on November 29, when Prof. Seligman is to deliver the Huxley Memorial Lecture at 8.30 P.M. Prof. Seligman is already a medallist of the Royal Anthropological Institute, having been awarded the Rivers Memorial Medal for 1926 in recognition of his work in the field in New Guinea, among the Veddas of Ceylon and in the Sudan. Prof. Seligman gained his first experience of field work as a member of the Cambridge University Expedition to the Torres Straits in 1898 under Dr. A. C. Haddon. He visited New Guinea again as joint leader of the Cooke-Daniels Ethnographical Expedition in 1904, publishing his results in “The Melanesians of British New Guinea”(1910). His studies of the Veddas in 1907, in which he was assisted by Mrs. Seligman, were published as “The Veddas” in 1911, while the results of his investigations among the Sudanese tribes on several occasions, on which he has again been accompanied and assisted by Mrs. Seligman, are announced for publication at an early date. The study in the University of London of the customs and races of man has made substantial advances during Prof. Seligman's occupation of the chair of ethnology at the London School of Economics, especially in the promotion and organisation of training for colonial officials.