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ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. 
E. N. FALLAIZE . 
Section H (Anthropology) met in the Lecture Theatre of the 
Literary and Philosophical Society under the Presidency of 
Mr. H. J. E. Peake, F.S.A. Although several communications 
of considerable interest were presented, and some valuable 
discussions took place, the proceedings on the whole were not 
as successful as is usual in this section. This was possibly 
due to the fact that some papers were a little too technical or 
too restricted in interest to appeal to a general audience. 
The President in his address, after a brief summary of the 
scope of anthropology in its broadest sense, and a review of the 
tendency of recent developments in the method of approaching 
its problems, suggested that the time had now come when some 
anthropologists might initiate a closer enquiry into the con- 
ditions of more civilized peoples as an addition to the study 
of primitive peoples to which attention had hitherto mainly 
been directed, and advocated the establishment of a School 
in India on lines similar to those of the Schools of Archaeology 
at present existing at Athens and Rome. 
In the Sectional proceedings, first place must be given to a 
discussion on ‘ The Relation of Early Man to Phases of the 
Ice Age in Britain,’ which took place in a joint meeting with 
Sections C (Geology) and E (Geography). The discussion 
was opened by the President of Section H, who referred to a 
tentative scheme which he himself had recently published,* 
with a view to eliciting opinions from geologists and arch- 
aeologists, and in the hope that it might be possible to arrive 
at some scheme which would bring the views of the mono- 
glacialists in this country into relation with the views of 
Penck and others as to conditions on the continent during 
the Ice Age Those who took part in the discussion were 
sharply divided into two camps. On the one hand Prof. 
Kendall and Prof. P. H. G. Boswell strongly maintained 
that attention should be confined to the evidence to be found 
in this country and the solution of the problem sought in 
East Anglia, while Mr. Hazzledine Warren contended that the 
conformity of palaeolithic gravels with holocene alluvium 
excluded the possibility of their having been subjected to 
glacial influence. On the other hand, Prof. Sollas, after a 
brilliant resume of the continental evidence, held strongly 
that Britain could not be considered apart from this evidence. 
Prof. Fleure, after pointing out that it was unthinkable that 
a change in the distribution of ice in any one of the three areas 
1922 Nov. 1. 
* Man, 1922, No. 5. 
