Minute book, December 1937-December 1948

The book carries on with newspaper clippings of interest and minutes of meetings of the Society. The Society received news from the International Association for European Ethnology and Folklore that the "Folk" journal has been discontinued and the Association has adopted "Folklir", published by Gustav-Adolf Academy as a replacement. The minutes detail correspondence with other societies such as the Lithuanian Folklore Society, the Anthropological Society of Mexico and the Nigerian Field Society. The future of the Institute of Anthropology was decided at a joint meeting with the Standing Committee on Anthropological Teaching and the Secretary of the Society. The Society agreed to continue with the teaching of anthropology but in a modified form. The Society had been holding meetings at the Free Church College where the Institute of Anthropology was based and it was decided that the Society would hold its meetings at the Royal Scottish Geographical Society's room at Synod Hall. In April 1938 the Campbell MSS Committee reported that delays over the manuscripts has been resolved and that they were now in the hands of the publishers. Delays were mainly due to disagreements between the Editors and the Translator. In May 1939 it was agreed that the control of the manuscripts was to be returned to the Society from the Scottish Archive. In February 1940 the first volume of the manuscripts were published under the name "More West Highland Tales". Translated by John G Mackay and Edited by Prof W J Watson, the Rev. Prof Donald Maclean and Prof H J Rose. Printers - Oliver & Boyd. In March 1942 Mr J G Mackay, translator of the manuscripts, dies. In October 1939 the Society announce that their lectures are suspended until further notice due to the outbreak of the war. There are no minutes of meetings between May 1939 and May 1945. In 1945 the future of the Society is discussed and it was decided to approach the Royal Scottish Geographical Society to arrange an affiliation and an agreement is put in place between the two societies concerning rooms, lectures, library, membership and publications. Two Study Circles were established in 1946/7 to deal with Scottish Folklore and Applied Anthropology. The Society became involved with the introduction of the Folklore Institute of Scotland along with many other societies. In June 1948 the Society held a Folk Music and Folk Dance Festival in Edinburgh and a film is made of it. The book ends with the creation of a Glasgow branch of the Society.