Correspondence, papers, and minutes relating to the establishment of the International Congress, 1912-34; and to the first Congress in 1934, and its relationship to the IIA, 1937-9.
In 1912, at the invitation of the RAI, proposals were considered to establish a new congress with a wider coverage than the old Congrès international d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistoriques; though it continued under the auspices of the IIA until 1939, its last meeting as an independent congress took place in 1912 in Geneva. The first meeting of the new congress was arranged for Leiden in 1916 but was cancelled due to the 1914 18 War. The Institut internationale d’Anthropologie, Paris was formed in 1919 and the RAI allowed the plans for the resumption of the 1916 congress to lapse. In Oct. 1928 the IIA, with the consent of the surviving members of the Permanent Committee of the old Congrès, agreed to ‘assure the continuity’ of the old Congrès by convening the 15th Congrès concurrently with its own 4th session in Portugal in Sep. 1930. However, at this meeting in Sep. 1930, due to measures taken by the IIA, members of the Congrès were deprived of a vote unless they were also members of the IIA. The 15th Congrès was adjourned as a result. A ‘petit comité’ was then set up at Oporto on 27 Sep. comprising the survivors of the Permanent Committee, the Presidents of the IIA and RAI and any co-opted members to consider the relations between the IIA and the Congrès. It met in Paris on 22 Dec. 1930. Sir John Myres, President, RAI maintained the separation of the management of the two organisations was essential. The majority agreed that the Oct. 1928 agreement had been a mistake. In 1931, the RAI contacted foreign colleagues by correspondence to obtain support for an informal conference with the intention of establishing a new international congress which would meet every four years. The preliminary conference took place in Apr. 1933 in Basle. The first meeting of the new congress, hosted by the RAI, was held from 30 July-4 Aug. 1934 in London and Oxford. See A65 for the International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences.
Abbreviations
HGB Harry G. Beasley, Cranmore Ethnographical Museum, Chislehurst, Kent; Hon. Treasurer of the Congress
ENF E.N. Fallaize, Hon. Secretary, RAI 1920-31
HJF H.J. Fleure, FRS (1877-1969) Prof. of Geography, Univ. of Manchester; President, RAI 1945-7
IIA Institut international d’Anthropologie, Paris
TAJ T.A. Joyce, OBE (1878-1942) Keeper of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum; Hon. Secretary 1903-13, Vice-President 1913-17, President, RAI 1931-3
RRM R.R. Marett, FBA (1866-1943) Reader in Social Anthropology, Univ. of Oxford, Rector of Exeter College, Oxford; Hon. Secretary, Committee for the Organisation of an International Congress of the Anthropological Sciences, 1912
JLM Sir John Myres, OBE (1869-1954) Wykeham Prof. Of Ancient History, Univ. of Oxford; Hon. Secretary, 1900-3; President, RAI 1928-31; founder and Editor of Man
GP Dr G. Papillault, Secrètaire General, Institut international d’Anthropologie, Paris
HJEP Harold J.E. Peake, FSA (1867-1946) President, RAI 1926-8
CGS C.G. Seligman, FRS, FRCP (1873-1940) Prof. of Ethnology, Univ. of London; President, RAI 1923-5
MLT Miss Miriam L. Tildesley (1883-1976) Royal College of Surgeons, London; Council, RAI 1933-59
Summary
1 Note by JLM; portrait of (Sir) J.L. Myres
2 List of Congress venues, 1866-1912
3 1912-14. Preliminary meetings and proposals
4-5 1919-21. Establishment of the IIA; and statutes
6 1924. Letters from the IIA
7 1925. Steps to avoid rival congresses and the relationship with the International Congress of Americanists
8 1927-8. Attempts to amalgamate the Congrès international and the IIA
9 1928. Steps to include an anthropological section in the International Research Council
10 1929-31. Continuing contacts with the IIA
11-12 1929-30. Foreign Office and the Economic Advisory Council; on the meeting of the Congrès international and the IIA in Portugal
13 1930. Joint Committee for Anthropological Research and Teaching. On the international standing of the IIA
14 1930. JLM’s Presidential Address, 28 Jan.
15 1930. HJEP’s circular to British members of the IIA on the forthcoming meeting in Portugal
16 1928-30. International Congress of Americanists. Discussions on co-ordination with a general congress and co-operation with the International Research Council
17-19 1931. Proposals to host revitalised XVI Congrès international
20-168 1912-33. Correspondence with individual scholars
169 1933. Provisional Committee
170 1933. Fund raising for 1934 Congrès
171 1933. Conveyance of thanks for the success of the preliminary meeting at Basle, 20-2 May
172 Executive Committee minutes [shelved with quartos]
173 1934. Congress circularization lists: individuals and institutions
174 Tidsskrifter: list of journals, A-Z
175 1934. Congress circularization lists: delegates and others
176 Preliminary meetings and general organisation
177 Section programmes
178 Authors of papers
179 Members’ tickets
180 Accommodation
181 Guide to Congress
182 Appointment of official delegates
183 Greetings and letters of thanks
184 Daily programme
185 Inaugural meeting
186 Conference of delegates to examine proposals submitted to Congress
187 Meeting of National Secretaries
188 Bureau du Congrès
189 Evening lectures
190 Closing session
191 Exhibitions
192 Dinner at New College, Oxford
193 Proposals
194 Films, scientific specimens and apparatus and customs regulations
195 Rejected papers
196 Correspondence with delegates and others; see also /20-168 above
197 German complaint
198 Photograph of delegates
199 Compte-rendu – proofs
200 Copyright of the Compte-rendu
201 Supplementary material
202 1937-8. IIA and the new Congrès
1/1 Note by JLM: This file contains the whole correspondence between myself and British and foreign colleagues, from the first proposal … made at the Americanist Congress in London in 1912, to the meeting at Berne [i.e. Basle], at which the new International Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric [i.e. Anthropological and Ethnological] Sciences was founded …. These papers should be preserved. [signed] John L. Myres 5.8.43.
2 Portrait of (Sir) J.L. Myres
2/ List of Congress venues [Congrès international d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistoriques] 1866-1912 by JLM
3/ 1912-14. Preliminary meetings and proposals:
Replies (mimeo. copies) to the RAI invitation to attend a Conference to organize an International Congress of Anthropology on 4 June 1912. From:
1912
1 15 Apr. Prof. Kollmann, Basle
2 23 May. Aurel de Torok, Director, Anthropological Institute, Budapest
3 28 Mar. E. von Weule, Director, Museum für Völkerkunde, Leipzig
4 31 May. Agenda of meeting on 4 June with covering letter (mimeo.)
5 3 June. JLM to R. R. Marett
6 4 June. Minutes of the 1st meeting of the Committee for the Organization of an International Congress held at the RAI (mimeo.)
7 4 June. Report of an International Conference (offprint)
8 14 Sep. Proposal passed at the 14me Congrès international d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistoriques (tpc.) – friendly response
9 Additional names for the General Committee (mimeo.)
10 Suggested scheme of work for the Congrès by RRM (mimeo., 2 copies)
11 Ibid. by RRM (autogr.)
12 List of names for the Advisory Committee by RRM and JLM’s item marker (both autogr.)
13 List of names (hand not identified)
14 Comments on RRM’s proposals. 7 leaves (hand not identified)
1913
15 25 Mar. Questionnaire from RRM, Organizing Secretary, on place and time of meeting, name of congress, and enlargement of Organizing Committee. 4 leaves (mimeo.)
Replies to questionnaire of 25 Mar.
16 M. Cartailhac (mimeo.)
17 Tabulation of votes for place of meeting by R. R. Marett
18 15 July. Circular letter from RRM or, result of replies to questionnaire
1914
19 29 May. Circular letter from RRM on the offer of the Dutch to host the Congrès in Leiden in Aug. or Sept. 1916
4/ 1919. Establishment of the Institut international d’Anthropologie in Paris, 4 leaves (tpc., annotated by JLM)
5/ 1921. IIA. Statuts, 1921. 4 pp.
6/ 1924. Letters from the IIA
1 27 Feb. GP to CGS, President, RAI
2 18 Dec. Ibid. (tp., autogr. note)
7/ 1925. Steps to avoid rival congresses and the relationship with the International Congrès of Americanists
1 2 Jan. CGS to GP (tpc.)
2 8 Jan. GP to C.G. Seligman
3 26 Jan. ENF to GP (tpc.)
4 28 Jan. Ibid.
5 2 Mar. GP to CGS (tp.)
6 12 Mar. Ales Hrdlička, Curator, Division of Physical Anthropology, US National Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington to TAJ (see abbreviations for details) (tp., autogr. note)
7 17 Mar. H.N. Hall, Univ. Museum, Philadelphia to Prof. George Grant MacCurdy, Yale Univ. (see 110/ for details)
8 17 Mar. Prof. Roland B. Dixon, Division of Anthropology, Harvard Univ. to TAJ (tp.)
9 18 Mar. George Grant MacCurdy to TAJ (tp.)
10 ?25 Apr. Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942), London School of Economics later Prof. of Anthropology, London Univ. (addressed from Oberbozen) to CGS (leaf 2 with autogr. notes by CGS and JLM)
11 30 Apr. CGS to GP (tpc.)
12 14 May. GP to C.G. Seligman
13 3 June. CGS to CP (tp.)
14 8 June. CGS tp ENF (tp.)
15 8 June. GP to C.G. Seligman
16 27 Oct. ENF to GP (tpc.)
8/ 1927-28. Attempts to amalgamate the Congrès international and the IIA
1927
1 25 Mar. ENF to GP (tpc.)
2 14 Apr. GP to ENF
3 Early stages of the IIA by JLM. 5 pp.
4 15 July. (Sir) Stephen Gaselee, KCMG (1882-1943), Foreign Office to HJEP (tp., autogr. note on verso)
5 21 July. Privy Council Office to HJEP (tp.)
6 26 July. (Sir) Stephen Gaselee to HJEP (tp.)
7 3 Sep. Ibid.
8 18 Oct. Ibid.
9 27 Oct. Ibid.
10 Report to Council by HJEP on attending the Congrès of the IIA in Amsterdam on 24 Sept. 9 leaves (corrected tp., autogr. note by JLM)
11 HJEP’s draft letter to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
12 Proposals for the unification of international congresses by HJF (autogr. note by JLM)
13 Report of a private conference held at Amsterdam, 1927 by HJF (autogr. note by JLM)
14 3e Session de 1’Assemblée générale de 1’IIA, Amsterdam, 24 Sep., resolutions adopted (offprint)
15 Copy of one of the resolutions by ?Prof. J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan (JPKZ), Amsterdam Univ.
16 Resolutions passed by Section 3 of the Congrès (tpc.)
17 [Nov.] JPKZ and H.J.F.W. Brugmans to HJEP (translation) enclosing with /14:
18 Draft memorial (by JPKZ) to be presented to … the IIA
19 28 Nov. HJEP to JPKZ (tpc.)
20 Draft letter by HJF to members of the IIA enclosing:
21 French translation and
22 Italian translation
23 Draft memorial (hand not identified) (tp., tpc., 2 copies)
24 French translation of /23
25 Extracts by JLM on the IIA from the Révue anthropologique, 1929. 5 leaves
26 21 Dec. HJF to (Sir) J.L. Myres
27 28 Dec. Ibid.
1928
28 16 Feb. ENF to JLM (tp., autogr. note)
29 18 Feb. JLM to ENF
30 20 Mar. GP to HJEP enclosing:
31 Circular of 1 Mar. (mimeo., autogr. note by JLM)
32 30 Nov. GP to ENF (autogr. note by JLM)
33 6 Dec. ENF in reply to GP’s letter of 30 Nov. (copies by JLM)
9/ 1928. Steps to include an anthropological section in the International Research Council (IRC)
1 20 Apr. HJEP to JLM (tp.)
2 22 Apr. JPKZ to HJEP
3 28 Apr. Prof. Richard Thurnwald, Universität Berlin, Editor, Zeitschrift für Völkerpsychologie und Soziologie and Sociologus to HJEP (tp.)
4 1 May. HJEP to JLM (tp., autogr. note by HJEP)
5 May. British Joint Committee for Anthropological Teaching and Research. Adoption of proposal to request the IRC to organize and promote international congresses (tpc.)
6 31 May. ENF to JLM (tp.)
7 23 June. Sir Arthur Schuster (AS), FRS (1851-1934) Prof. of Physics, Manchester Univ.; Secretary, Royal Society 1912-19; Secretary, IRS 1919-28 to ENF on meeting with JLM (tp.)
8 . 4 July. Report of meeting with AS by (Sir) J.L. Myres
9 5 July. AS’s Secretary to HJEP (tp.) enclosing:
10 Statuts de 1’Union géodésique et géophysique international, 24 Juillet 1919. 8 pp.
11 Statuts de Conseil international de Rechèrches, [June 1926]
12 Ibid., Statuts, texte française et anglais, June 1926. 12 pp. (2 copies)
13 5 July. ENF to JLM (tp.) enclosing:
14 5 July. Draft RAI resolution for submission to the IRC viewing favourably the establishment of an International Research Union for the promotion of anthropology and an international congress (tpc., autogr. note by JLM)
15 Another copy (tpc.)
16 5 July. RAI memorandum presented to the IRC setting out the history of anthropological congresses and supporting the resolution (tpc., initialled by JLM and ENF)
17 Another copy (tpc.)
18 Third copy (tpc.)
19 5 July. AS to JLM (tp.)
20 5 July. AS to ENF (tp.)
21 5 July. ENF to J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan (JPKZ) (tpc.)
22 6 July. JLM to AS
23 7 July. AS to JLM
24 9 July. JPKZ to ENF enclosing:
25 8 July. Copy of letter to AS
26 11 July. [ENF] to Ales Hrdlička (see 7/6 for details)
27 11-13 July. [ENF] to Charles Fraipont
similar letters to:
28 Prof. H. Obermaier, Madrid (tpc., with additional para)
29 Prof. Eugène Pittard, Musée éthnographique, Geneva
30 Prof. Richard Thurnwald (see 9/3 for details)
31 Prof. Réné Verneau, Institut de Paléontologie humaine, Paris
32 13 July. [ENF] to A.R. Radcliffe-Brown, FBA (1881-1955) Prof. of Social Anthropology, Oxford Univ.; President, RAI, 1939-40, (tpc.)
33 20 July. HJEP tp JLM (tp.)
34 21 July. Ales Hrdlička to ENF (tp.)
35 23 July. AS to JLM
36 4 Aug. JLM to AS
37 24 July. Réné Verneau in reply to /31
38 2 Aug. ENF to JLM enclosing /34
39 4 Aug. Richard Thurnwald partly in reply to /30
40 5 Aug. JLM to ENF in reply to /38
41 5 Aug. JLM to ENF
42 8 Aug. ENF to Richard Thurnwald in reply to /39
43 13 Aug. [ENF] to AS
44 15 Sep. International Research Council (offprint)
1930
45 16 Feb. H.G. Lyons to JLM
46 18 Apr. Ibid.
10/ 1929-31. Continuing contacts with the IIA (see also 151/54)
1929
1 6 June. GP to JLM (tp., autogr. note)
2 28 June. [ENF] to GP (tpc.)
3 8 Nov. Louis Marin, IIA (mimeo.) – agenda for meeting on 29 Nov.
4 19 Nov. Notes on an interview by JLM between himself and M.L. Tildesley
5 6 Dec. JLM to GP
6 10 Dec. HJEP to (Sir) J.L. Myres
7 10 Dec. GP to Miles C. Burkitt (MCB) (1890-1971), Lecturer, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge Univ. (tpc.) enclosed in /8
8 14 Dec. GP to JLM (autogr., annotated by JLM)
1930
9 25 Jan. Royal Society to JLM (tp.)
10 Fri. [Mar.] MCB to (Sir) J.L. Myres
11 16 Mar. JLM to M. C. Burkitt
12 ‘An Anthropological Congress’ by JLM, draft of a letter to Nature
13 — proof
14 29 Mar. — letter, Nature, Vol.125, No. 3152, 29 Mar. 1930, p.494
15 15 Apr. ENF to JLM (autogr. note by JLM)
A62/10/15
16 16 Apr. JLM to ENF
17 16 Apr. JLM to GP
18 16 Apr. JLM to Editor, Nature (draft)
19 17 Apr. Editor, Nature to JLM (tp.)
20 24 Apr. JLM to Editor, Nature
21 27 [Apr.] [British Embassy, Lisbon] to JLM (telegram)
22 JLM’s list of congress venues
23 5 May. GP to JLM
24 14 May. HJEP (pc.) to (Sir) J.L. Myres
25 8 July. XVe Congrès international d’Anthropologie et d’Archéologie préhistorique, IVe Session de 1’Institut international d’Anthropologie, Coimbra-Porto, 1930, programme (pr.)
26 21 Aug. JLM to GP
27 2 Sep. GP to JLM
28 2 Sep. 2 copies of /27 (mimeo.) prepared by RAI
29 16 Sep. JLM to GP (in French, mimeo.) 2 copies
30 Resolutions adopted by the Joint Committee for Anthropological Research and Teaching, 14 Jan. 1930 (French translation; mimeo.)
31 Resolutions by the President, RAI on relations between the Congrès international and the IIA (in French, mimeo.)
32 12 Nov. GP to JLM enclosing:
33 Decisions taken on RAI requests at the Assemblée générale de Congrès international and the IIA on 27 Sept. at Porto (in French)
34 24 Nov. GP to JLM
35 27 Nov. JLM to GP (in French)
36 1 Dec. Ibid.
37 5 Dec. GP to JLM (signature only in writer’s hand)
38 8 Dec. JLM to GP (in French)
39 9 Dec. Secretary, IIA to JLM (pc., autogr. note by JLM)
40 22 Dec. Procès-verbal de la Séance of the small permanent committee set up by the Congrès international at Porto (see /33) between the Congrès and the IIA, copy by JLM
41 24 Dec. Secretary, IIA to JLM (pc.)
1931
42 12 Jan. JLM to GP (in French)
43 20 Jan. GP to JLM (autogr. note by JLM)
44 28 Jan. JLM to GP enclosing copy of /40; copies also sent to Marcellin Boule, Réné Verneau and others (in French)
11/ 1929-30. Foreign Office. On the meeting of the Congrès international and the IIA in Portugal
1929
1 21 Dec.-14 July 1930. JLM’s notes on meetings with (Sir) Stephen Gaselee (SG), KCMG (1882-1943)
2 27 Dec. John W. Field (JWF), FO to JLM (tp.)
1930
3 27 Jan. JWF, FO to JLM (tp.)
4 c.13 Apr. Note by JLM on despatch of his Presidential Address to FO
5 16 Apr. JLM to JWF
6 9 May. SG to JLM (tp.)
7 18 June. SG to JLM (tp.)
8 8 July. SG to JLM (tp.)
9 17 July. JLM to SG
10 24 July. SG to JLM (tp. annotated by JLM)
11 31 July. SG to JLM (tp.)
12 8 Aug. JLM to SG
13 16 Aug. SG to JLM (tp.)
14 21 Aug. SG to JLM (tp.)
12/ 1930. Economic Advisory Council (EAC). On the meeting of the Congrès international and the IIA in Portugal
1 23 July. JLM to EAC (autogr. carbon annotated by JLM)
2 25 July. A.F. Hemming (AFH), EAC to JLM (tp.)
3 23 Aug. AFH to JLM (tp.)
4 29 Aug. JLM to AFH
13/ 1930. Joint Committee for Anthropological Research and Teaching. On the international standing of the IIA
1 Draft circular for submission by RAI to Joint Committee (JLM’s autogr. and tpc.)
2 Notification of joint meeting on 14 Jan. (tpc.)
3 13 Jan. HJF to JLM
4 13 Jan. Sidney H. Ray (SHR) (1858-1939) schoolmaster; student of Oceanic languages; Vice President, RAI (1919) to Hon. Secretary, Joint Committee
5 13 Jan. SHR to ENF
6 13 Jan. C.M. West, Dept. of Anatomy, University College, Cardiff to ENF
7 13 Jan. Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (1871-1937), Prof. of Anatomy, University College, London; President, RAI to ENF (tp.)
8 13 Jan. Prof. Thomas H. Bryce, Dept. of Anatomy, Glasgow Univ. to ENF
9 13 Jan. TAJ to ENF (tp.)
10 16 Jan. TAJ to JLM. Resolutions of meeting (tpc.)
11 [14 Jan.] Pencilled slip initialled ?JDH on leaving meeting early
12 Resolutions of meeting (tp.)
14/ 1930. JLM’s Presidential Address, 28 Jan.
1 Proofs with autogr. comments by MLT and autogr. note by JLM (leaf 8 missing)
2 8 Feb. Nature, press notice
3 1 Mar. Nature, Vol. 125, No. 3148, leader ‘International Congresses’ by [JLM], corrected galley proofs
4 Offprint of /3
