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THE Australian meeting of 1914 will always occupy a prominent place in the annals of the British Association, if only on account of the interest attaching to the proceedings of its Anthropological Section. Not only did the representatives of this rapidly developing branch of science muster in full strength, but their discussions, bearing as they did largely on Australian problems which are concerned with the most primitive of existing human types, were throughout directed to fundamentals. Needless to say, the shadow of the great war raging in Europe cast a chill over the spirits of all concerned, and it needed a certain moral effort to carry through a programme in which, at least as originally designed, business and pleasure claimed equal shares. As it was, the inclination of the balance towards the side of seriousness was not without its advantage for those students who found the allotted time all too short to enable them to cope with Australia's magnificent ethnological collections. These must be seen before one is in a position to assign to Australian culture its true place in the evolutionary scale.
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Anthropology at the British Association . Nature 94, 210–212 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/094210b0
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