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IN the now not inconsiderable list of men of eminence in anthropological studies who have paid tribute to the work of Thomas Henry Huxley in the Huxley Memorial Lecture of the Royal Anthropological Institute, now approaching near to its fortieth year of delivery, no one, since the inaugural lecture in 1900 by Lord Avebury, the intimate friend of both Huxley and Darwin, has been more felicitous or more opportune in the choice and treatment of subject than was Prof. H. J. Fleure, when on November 9 he addressed the Institute on “Racial Evolution and Archæology”(see page 981). In making the classification and distribution of races the basis of his argument, he dwelt on an aspect of the study of man with which Huxley was closely concerned, and at the same time, by associating racial studies with the results of archaeological and cultural research, he was able to draw certain inferences as to the forces making for the upward progress of mankind, which would have commended themselves to one whom Prof. Fleure and his colleagues without exception would regard as their master.
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Racial Doctrine and Social Evolution. Nature 140, 945–946 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/140945a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/140945a0