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Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum - Is happy to know Frazer's notebooks are at the British Museum.

Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum - States his reasons for believing that there are two trilithons at Tongatabu [Tongatapu], citing accounts by J. L. Brenchley, Basil Thomson, and A. de Quatrefages.

Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum - Is sorry that she is unwell and will be unable to come to the Huxley meeting this year, will send an invitation to Forrest Dodd to come as their representative; admires the volume on Africa and Madagascar.

Royal Anthropological Institute - The Institute is interested in the proposal to publish his notebooks, and requests a draft of the particulars.

as from Trinity College, Cambridge (Dictated) - They cannot wait until October and cannot submit further details but will go ahead and print the Circular [for the 'Anthologia Anthropologica'] and hope the Council of the Anthropological Institute will support the undertaking in due course.

Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum - Has withdrawn the appeal for publication of the 'Anthologica Anthropologica' from the agenda of the Council meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute; hopes he did not give the impression he doubts Sir James' s credentials, but that they have rules that MSS must be submitted before publication; he also doubts the Institute is able to undertake the publication of large works; thanks her for the gift to the Institute of the 'Fasti'.

The Royal Anthropological Institute, 52 Upper Bedford Place, London - The Council views with sympathetic interest the publication of the 'Anthologia Anthropologica', but does not feel it could go so far as to sponsor it; has asked permission from the editor of 'Man' to distribute the prospectus with the next issue.

Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum - Thanks her for the copies of the prospectus for the 'Anthologia Anthropologica', will see they are distributed to the members of the Royal Anthropological Institute Council; will need several hundred if they are to be sent to subscribers of 'Man'; he does not doubt Sir James' judgment in making extracts, but the Council must carefully consider publications it approves; takes her point about international students not having access to books readily accessible in England; thanks her for her kind messages to his parents.

Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum - Saw Mr Edge-Partington, who has been to Tongatabu, and he confirms there is only one trilithon on the island.

Accompanied by an envelope, "H. J. Braunholtz, 8 April 1927, the trilithon in Tongatabu (Edge Partington's evidence).

Department of Ceramics and Ethnography, British Museum - Thanks him for his letter replying to his about Tonga trilithons [FRAZ/1/92], is convinced that Frazer's explanation is correct and that there is only one, was misled by Brenchley's account which derived from his officer Foljambe's report and drawing; a recent edition of 'Stewart's Handbook of the Pacific Islands' reports only one; it is possible the other collapsed or became overgrown, perhaps W. C. McKern could settle the question; there is an interesting account by Hambruch of the Ponape ruins in the Carolines in "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anthropologie", XLII, 1911: he has spoken to Hambruch and knows he has a great deal of material. Accompanied by an envelope.

Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography, British Museum - Thanks her for the prospectus for the 'Anthologia Anthropologica', will put it on the agenda of the Royal Anthropological Institute; thinks that there should be summaries or references rather than long extracts from books readily accessible in public libraries.