International Congress of Anthropology and Ethnology

Abstract

ARRANGEMENTS are now well advanced for the first session of the International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, which will be held under royal patronage in London on July 30 August 4 next. The proposal to hold a congress of this nature was first made in 1912, when the International Congress of Americanists met in London,but the meeting in 1916, for which arrangements were then made, had to be postponed indefinitely owing to the War. In future the Congress will be held every fourth year, alternating with the International Congress of Archæological and Pro to-historic Sciences, which will be held in the second of the intervening years. The Anthropological Congress will coincide with the meeting in Europe of the International Congress of Americanists, which this year is to be held at Seville. The sessions of the Congress will be held at University College, Gower Street, and at the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The president is Lord Onslow and the chairman of the executive committee, Capt. T. A. Joyce. Prof. J. L. Myres and Mr. A. H. Brodrick are the joint honorary secretaries and Mr. H. G. Beasley the treasurer. Presidents of sections are Prof. G. Elliot Smith (Anatomy and Physical Anthropology), Mr. F. C. Bartlett (Psychology), Prof. C. B. Fawcett (Demography), Dr. A. C. Haddon (Ethnography), the Rev. E. Smith, president of the Royal Anthropological Institute (Subsection of African Ethnography), Mr. H. Balfour (Technology), Prof. C. G. Seligman (Sociology), Prof. E. O. James (Religions) and Dr. Alan H. Gardiner (Languages and Writing). Among the vice-presidents are the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Mayor of London, the High Commissioners of India and South Africa, Sir James Frazer, and the presidents of the Societies of Antiquaries, the Folklore Society and the Royal Asiatic Society. Particulars of the Congress may be obtained from the Royal Anthropological Institute, 52 Upper Bedford Place, W.C.I.