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Abstract

ARRANGEMENTS have been made for the inclusion of two organised discussions in the proceedings of Section H (Anthropology) during the forthcoming meeting of the British Association at Dundee. On Friday, September 6, a discussion on the ethnological aspects of Scottish folklore will be opened by Mr. W. Crooke, president of the Folklore Society, and papers will be contributed by Mr. E. S. Hartland, Mr. W. J. Brodie-Innes, and Canon J. A. McCulloch. On Monday, September 9, the president of the section, Prof. G. Elliot Smith, F.R.S., will read a paper on the distribution of megalithic monuments, in which he will develop the theories as to the racial affinities of their builders which he has recently put forward. In the discussion which will follow, Prof. Ridgeway, Prof. J. L. Myres, Prof. W. Boyd Dawkins, Dr.'T. Ashby, and others have promised to speak.