History
The Institute's fellows are lineal successors to the founding fellows of the Ethnological Society of London, who in February 1843 formed a breakaway group of the Aborigines' Protection Society, which had been founded in 1837. The new society was to be 'a centre and depository for the collection and systematization of all observations made on human races'.
Between 1863 and 1870 there were two organizations, the Ethnological Society and the Anthropological Society.The Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1871) was the result of a merger between these two rival bodies. Permission to add the word 'Royal' was granted in 1907.
Individuals seeking full Fellowship status are usually required to be proposed by current Fellows who personally knows the potential member. Fellowship in the Institute is primarily for individuals who have professional or academic engagement with the field of the study of humankind or the social sciences. Fellows are elected by the RAI Council, and are entitled to use the post-nominal letters FRAI.
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