Minutes of the Standing Committee on Anthropological Teaching, September 1934-February 1939

The Minutes relate to the formation of an Institute of Anthropology and a new university department of Anthropology within the Free Church College. A donation from Mr G R Gair of £1,000 helped to fund the set up. Some members of the Committee were also members of the Scottish Anthropological Society and it was agreed that the Society could rent one of the rooms of the Free Church College for an annual donation. The minutes discuss correspondence with other institutes offering co-operation and the advertisement of the new Institute to universities and learned societies. In 1936 a course of Anthropology was set up at St Andrews University. Throughout the minutes there are many discussions about the criteria for the Certificate and Diploma in the course. In February 1939 it was proposed by the Council of the Scottish Anthropological and Folklore Society that the Institute is brought to an end at the end of the academic year 1938-39.