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Sir James George, cla ical scholar and anthropologist, was born in Giasgow in 1854, studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and graduated with high distinction in cla ics in 1878. He was called to the Bar at the Middle Temple in 1882. He is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, became profe or of social anthropology at Liverpool in 1907, and has received honorary doctor’s degrees from several universities. He was knighted in 1914, and received the Order of Merit in 1925. His publications include: Totemism (1887); The Golden Bough; a Study in Comparative Religion (1890); Pausanias’ Description of Greece (Translation and Commentary, 1898); Pausanias and other Greek Sketches (1900); Lectures on the Early History of the Kingship (1905); The Scove of Social Anthropology (1908); Totemism and Exogamy (1910); Folklore in the Old Testament (1918). In his chief work, The Golden Bough, there are brought together a ma of material and a number of ingenious theories and speculations bearing on the origin of religion and religious beliefs, the folklore of many peoples being brought under review.