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FURTHER arrangements are announced for the second International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, which will be held in Copenhagen on August 1–6, 1938 (see NATURE, July 24, 1937, p. 147). This date has been chosen to meet the convenience of any members who may also attend the International Congress of Geography at Amsterdam on July 18–28. The proceedings at Copenhagen will take place in both general and sectional meetings. There will be eight sections, and a number of subsections, each being devoted to some one branch of anthropological study with a special topic proposed for discussion, though this does not preclude the acceptance of communications dealing with other matters. Among the topics proposed, the following may be mentioned: under Physical Anthropology, in the subsection of Anatomy and Biotypology, meeting under Prof. H. M. Houdensen—interrelation of types of fossil man, methodology, and the conception of 'race' in anthropology ; Subsection of Physiological Anthropology, under Prof. Oluf Thornsen, geographical distribution of blood groups in man and their presence in animals ; in the Section of Psychology, under Prof, Edgar Rubin, influence of the factors of civilization on character and (with the Section of Sociology and Religion) on cultural changes ; in the Section of Ethnology, under Prof. Gudmund Hart, origins of agriculture and the domestication of animals and plants ; in the Section of Ethnography, in the subsections of Asia and Africa, of which M. C. G. Feilberg, curator of the Ethnographical Museum and M. Carl Kjersmeier are the respective presidents, the nomad pastorals of Asia and Africa ; in the subsection of Arctic Ethnography, under Dr. Therkel Mathiassen, the prehistoric and historic culture-movements of the circumpolar region ; and in the Section of Sociology and Religion under Prof. Wilh. Grønbech, the extent to which archæology and prehistory can serve as a basis for the study of intellectual development. Applications for membership should be addressed to the Treasurer of the Congress, Nationalmuseet, 10 Ny Vestergade, Copenhagen, K.
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Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Nature 141, 32 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141032a0
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