Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom
Classmark: LAVC/FLF/5/7/2
Creator(s): British Association for the Advancement of Science
Site Location(s): Subject - Cleckheaton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom( 53.724, -1.71294 )
Date(s): [1960s-1970s]
Size and medium: 1 file of photocopied papers.
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/410655
Collection group(s): Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture
Description
This file contains photocopies of items from the Reports of the 65th, 66th and 67th meetings of the British Association ( 1895-1897). The photocopies contain the 3rd, 4th and 5th reports of the Association's Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom. The 1895 report includes details of circulars sent to local societies and medical men about the Survey; and 'Notes Explanatory of the Schedules' by E. S. Hartman. The 1896 report includes a report of the Committee of the Ethnographical Survey of Ireland; a report on the Ethnographical Survey of Pembrokeshire by Edward Laws; a preliminary report on folklore in Galloway (Scotland) by Rev. Dr. Walter Gregor; and 'On the Method of Determining the Value of Folklore as Ethnological Data' by G. Laurence Gomme. The 1897 report includes a further report on folklore in Galloway by Rev. Dr. Walter Gregor; a report on the ethnography of Wigtonshire and Kirkcudbrightshire; the report of the Cambridge Committee for the Ethnographical Survey of East Anglia;
observations on the physical characteristics of children and adults in Aberdeen, Banffshire and Lewis (Scotland); anthropometric notes on the inhabitants of Cleckheaton (West Yorkshire); and a report of the Committee on the Ethnographical Survey of Ireland.
File arranged chronologically.
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