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The Council of the Anthropological Society of London have much pleasure in reporting to the Fellows of the Society that they consider the state of the Society to be satisfactory and most encouraging. The past year has been one of great anxiety to the Council, inasmuch as the scheme proposed by the original circular of the Society was so vast, that the Council at first nearly despaired of being able to carry it out in all its particulars. The Council now beg to submit a few remarks on each of the objects for which the Society was founded, and also to add some suggestions for the consideration of the Society.

_Meetings._ During the past year, _i.e._ since February 24, thirteen ordinary meetings of the Society have been held, at which twenty-four papers have been read, consisting of the following:--

DR. JAMES HUNT, President, On the Study of Anthropology.

CAPTAIN R. F. BURTON, Vice-President, A Day among the Fans.

PROFESSOR RAIMONDI, On the Indian Tribes of Loreto, in North Peru.

R. T. GORE, Esq., On a Case of Microcephaly.

ALFRED TYLOR, Esq., On the Discovery of Supposed Human Remains in the Tool-bearing Drift of Moulin-Quignon.

DR. JULIUS SCHVARCZ, On the Permanence of Type.

C. S. WAKE, Esq., On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals.

W. BOLLAERT, Esq., Past and Present Populations of the New World.

PROFESSOR JOHN MARSHALL, On a Case of Microcephaly.

PROFESSOR GEORGE BUSK, On the Human Remains from so-called Brick Earth, at Luton, near Chatham, contributed by the Rev. H. F. Rivers.

T. BENDYSHE, Esq., On Human Remains found at Barrington, in Cambridgeshire.

R. S. CHARNOCK, Esq., On the Science of Language.

W. WINWOOD READE, Esq., On the Bush Tribes of Equatorial Africa.

C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., On Recent Evidence of the Extreme Antiquity of the Human Race.

C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., Report on the Anthropological Papers read before the British Association at Newcastle.

PROFESSOR JOHN MARSHALL, F.R.S., On the Superficial Convolutions of a Microcephalic Brain.

GEORGE E. ROBERTS, Esq., and PROFESSOR BUSK, F.R.S., Note on the Opening of a Kist at Burghead.

CAPTAIN EUSTACE JACOB, Indian Tribes of Vancouver’s Island.

DR. JAMES HUNT, F.S.A., Pres. A.S.L., The Negro’s Place in Nature.

CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, Esq., F.R.G.S., On Crystal Quartz Cutting Instruments of the Ancient Inhabitants of Chanduy, near Guayaquil.

GEORGE E. ROBERTS, Esq., F.A.S.L., On the Discovery of Mammalian Bone, cut and sawn by Flint Implements at Audley End, Essex.

A. BRYSON, Esq., F.G.S., On Human Remains from the Bin of Cullen (communicated by George E. Roberts, Esq., F.A.S.L.)

DR. F. ROYSTON FAIRBANK, On Flint Arrowheads from Canada.

COUNT OSCAR REICHENBACH, Vitality of the Coloured People in the United States.

The Council hope that during the next year some most important and valuable memoirs will be laid before the Society.

The discussions have been satisfactory, and many Fellows and visitors had taken part in them.

_Transactions._ The Council, at the early part of the year, made arrangements with Messrs. Trübner and Co. to publish the Journal of the Society in connection with the _Anthropological Review_. This has hitherto been carried out, and the Council think that the connection between the _Review_ and _Journal_ will soon be better understood. At first the _Journal_ was printed as part of the _Review_, but the Council have now made arrangements that the _Journal_ shall be paged differently, and it will then be seen for which part of this publication the Society is alone responsible. The _Journal_ for the ensuing year will occupy a far larger space than it has hitherto done. An offer was made to the Council of the copyright of the _Anthropological Review_, which the Council felt it their duty to decline. The _Memoirs_ have not yet been published, but a volume is now in the press. A general wish of the Fellows induced the Council to order the separate publication of the President’s paper “On the Negro’s Place in Nature,” which will, however, again appear in the forthcoming volume of _Memoirs_.

_Museum._ Many valuable donations have been made to the Museum, and many other presents have been offered when a suitable place has been found for the deposit. The following gentlemen have made donations to the Museum:--Dr. James Hunt, Rev. H. F. Rivers, W. W. Reade, Esq., George Witt, Esq., Erasmus Wilson, Esq., C. Carter Blake, Esq., Dr. R. Fairbank, Captain R. F. Burton, R. T. Gore, Esq., T. Bendyshe, Esq., and A. A. Fraser, Esq.

_Library._ The Library now consists of more than two hundred volumes. The Council have only recently made an effort to establish a Library; but they trust ere long to have such an Anthropological Library for the use of the Fellows as has never before existed in this metropolis. The Council also beg to suggest to the Fellows that they may all have works which, comparatively valueless in themselves, would yet be of the highest value in an Anthropological Library. Donations have already been received from the following gentlemen:--Dr. James Hunt, (one hundred and eighteen volumes) T. Bendyshe, Esq., J. Jones, Esq., Professor Busk, Dr. W. Bell, M. Boucher de Perthes, the Anthropological Society of Paris, M. Paul Broca, M. Pruner-Bey, George Tate, Esq., Professor R. Owen, M. Camille Dareste, Professor Nicolucci, Sir Charles Lyell, Dr. Hughlings Jackson, C. Carter Blake, Esq., M. D’Omnalius D’Halloy, Professor Dana, the Smithsonian Institution of New York, A. Stair, Esq., David Carrington, Esq., Professor Eckhard, Hekekyan Bey, Royal Institution of Cornwall, Dr. Beke, Sir W. Jardine, Dr. Cuthbert Collingwood, the Royal Geographical Society, Imperial Academy of Science of Vienna, the Society of Antiquaries, G. McHenry, Esq., J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., Jacob Boys, Esq., R. S. Charnock, Esq., R. T. Gore, Esq., H. C. Atkinson, Esq., M. de Quatrefages, Dr. F. C. Webb, the upper Hesse Society für Natur- und Heilkunde, Rev. W. Houghton, W. Spencer Cockings, Esq., the Royal Society of London, George Witt, Esq., Professor R. Wagner, Professor Tennant, G. E. Roberts, Esq., A. Higgins, Esq., C. von Martius, Dr. Beddoe, and G. Pouchet.

_Translations._ The Council are glad to report that they have printed the first volume of a translation of Waitz’s _Anthropologie der Naturvölker_, and they feel that their best thanks are due to Mr. J. Frederick Collingwood, for the care and attention with which he edited this work. Mr. Collingwood has fully explained the reasons which induced the Council to select this work, and they feel it right to acquaint the Fellows of their determination during the ensuing year to issue works which shall not advocate the same opinions as those put forward by Professor Waitz. The Council are fully impressed with the necessity of their exercising a strict impartiality in selecting works for translation. The Council have entrusted the chief management of the publications of the Society to a Publishing Committee, and they feel the thanks of the Society are due to this Committee for the efficient manner in which they have discharged their duties.

It is proposed that the following works should be next undertaken by the Society:--

Broca. Sur l’Hybridité Animale en général, et sur l’Hybridité Humaine en particulier. 8vo, Paris, 1860. Edited by C. Carter Blake, Esq., F.G.S., Hon. Sec. A.S.L. (_In the Press._)

Pouchet. Pluralité des Races Humaines. 8vo, Paris, 1858. Edited by T. Bendyshe, Esq., M.A., F.A.S.L. (_In the Press._)

Carl Vogt. Vorlesungen über den Menschen, seine Stellung in der Schöpfung und in der Geschichte der Erde. 8vo, Giessen, 1863. Edited by Dr. James Hunt, F.S.A., Pres. A.S.L. (_In the Press._)

Gratiolet. Mémoire sur les Plis Cérébraux de l’Homme et des Primates. 4to, Paris, 1855. Edited by Dr. Tuke.

A. de Quatrefages. Unité de l’Espèce Humaine. 8vo, Paris, 1861. Edited by George F. Rolph, Esq., F.A.S.L.

Dr. Theodor Waitz, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Marburg. Anthropologie der Naturvölker. 1861. Second part. Edited by J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., F.G.S., F.R.S.L., Hon. Sec. A.S.L.

Gosse. Mémoire sur les Déformations Artificielles du Crâne. 8vo, Paris, 1855. Edited by Dr. Thurnam, F.S.A., F.A.S.L.

Retzius, Professor. The collected works of.

_Committees._ Two Committees have been appointed. The first to report on the terminology of Anthropological Science; and the second to report on the present state of the Anthropological Museums in Great Britain. The result of the reports will be issued to the Fellows as soon as they are known.

_Societies._ Arrangements have been made to exchange Transactions with the following Societies in Great Britain:--

The Royal Society. Society of Antiquaries of London. Royal Society of Literature. The Royal Geographical Society. Berwickshire Naturalists’ Field Club. Philosophical and Literary Society of Leeds. The Royal Institute of Cornwall. The Glasgow Geological Society. Cotteswold Naturalists’ Field Club. Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.

Arrangements have been made for an exchange of publications with the following Academies and Societies, several of which have forwarded to the Society complete sets of their Proceedings and Memoirs:--

The Anthropological Society of Paris. The Royal Academy of Sciences at Amsterdam. The Imperial German Academy at Dresden. The Royal Society of Victoria, Melbourne. The Smithsonian Institute, Washington. The Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg. The Canadian Institute, Toronto. The Imperial Academy of Sciences, Vienna. The Royal Bengal Asiatic Society, Calcutta. The Upper Hesse Society for Natural and Medical Science, Giessen. The Physio-economical Society of Königsburg.

In the foreign department, eighteen gentlemen have been elected Honorary Fellows, thirty-five Corresponding Members, and twenty Local Secretaries. Communications have been received from nearly all of these gentlemen, expressing great interest in the work of the Society and offering to advance its objects in every way in their power.

_Honorary Fellows._ The Council have felt it their duty to limit the present number of Honorary Fellows to twenty-five. It is proposed, however, eventually to increase this number to forty.

_Corresponding Members._ Thirty-five Corresponding Members have been elected, and the Council recommend that no more than forty be elected.

_Local Secretaries._ Twenty-two Local Secretaries have been appointed in Great Britain, of these seven are Fellows of the Society. The Council are still anxious to increase this number, and to have their official representative in every county, and also in every large town throughout the kingdom. They will be glad to hear from gentlemen who are really anxious to promote the objects of the Society. Twenty Local Secretaries have been appointed abroad, but the Council hope during the next year that their number will be largely increased. The Council invite the assistance of the Fellows in nominating gentlemen to fill this important office in different parts of the world. The Council have not yet been able “to indicate the class of facts required,” but they hope during the ensuing session to be able to do so.

_Donations._ Besides the valuable donations which the Society have received for the Library and Museum, they have also the pleasure of announcing the following:--Henry Christy, Esq., £5.; J. F. Collingwood, Esq., £10; S. E. Collingwood, Esq., £5.; Henry Hotze, Esq. £5 (for the library).

_Special Donations._ The following sums have been received as a special fund for preparing or stuffing a specimen of male Gorilla, presented to the Society by Mr. Winwood Reade:--J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., £5; S. E. B. Bouverie Pusey, Esq., £5; S. E. Collingwood, Esq., £5; James Hunt, Esq., £1; Charles Stenning, Esq., £1; C. R. des Ruffières, £1; W. Chamberlain, Esq., 5s.

The Council having made a few remarks on each of the chief objects of the Society, would now beg to invite the attention of the Fellows to the important question of Finance, which will necessarily regulate its future operations. The experience of the past year has convinced the Council, after mature and earnest consideration, that the objects of the Society cannot be fully carried out until there are Five hundred Fellows. The Council would, therefore, suggest the desirability of not increasing the subscription or of making an entrance fee, until this number has been obtained. It will be readily seen that the objects of this Society include something more than those generally included in a scientific society, and that the expense of printing is very large. The Council are glad, however, to state that the present number of Fellows, two hundred and thirty-six, will enable them to accomplish all they have done during the past year; but they feel that the ultimate success of a Society of this sort will require a larger annual expenditure. The Council feel especially anxious to establish as soon as possible a good reference library. They also look forward with earnest hope of being able to found a reliable Anthropological Museum, and thus remove the disgrace under which this country is now suffering, that with all our colonial possessions no independent Anthropological Museum has yet been established in this Metropolis.

The Council are fully sensible of the important services which the officers of the Society have rendered during the past year, and they feel that it is their duty to again call on all the officers for renewed exertion during the ensuing year. The Council trust that the ample success which their efforts have met during the past year, will be an encouragement to the official representatives of the Council to again use their exertions to put the affairs of the Society in a permanently satisfactory state.

Signed on behalf of the Council, JAMES HUNT, _Chairman_.

Anthropological Society of London.

4, ST. MARTIN’S PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE.

This Society is formed with the object of promoting the study of Anthropology in a strictly scientific manner. It proposes to study Man in all his leading aspects, physical, mental, and historical; to investigate the laws of his origin and progress; to ascertain his place in nature and his relations to the inferior forms of life; and to attain these objects by patient investigation, careful induction, and the encouragement of all researches tending to establish a _de facto_ science of man. No Society existing in this country has proposed to itself these aims, and the establishment of this Society, therefore, is an effort to meet an obvious want of the times.

This it is proposed to do:

First. By holding Meetings for the reading of papers and the discussion of various anthropological questions.

Second. By the publication of reports of papers and abstracts of discussions in the form of a Quarterly Journal; and also by the publication of the principal memoirs read before the Society, in the form of Transactions.

Third. By the appointment of Officers, or Local Secretaries, in different parts of the world, to collect systematic information. It will be the object of the Society to indicate the class of facts required, and thus tend to give a systematic development to Anthropology.

Fourth. By the establishment of a carefully collected and reliable Museum, and a good reference Library.

Fifth. By the publication of a series of works on Anthropology which will tend to promote the objects of the Society. These works will generally be translations; but original works will also be admissible.

The translation of the following work is now ready.

Dr. Theodor Waitz, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Marburg. Anthropologie der Naturvölker. 1861. First Part. Edited by J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., F.R.S.L., F.G.S., Hon. Sec. A.S.L., with corrections and additions by the Author.

Translations of the following works will be delivered to all the Fellows for the year 1864:

1. Broca. Sur l’Hybridité Animale en général, et sur l’Hybridité Humaine en particulier. 8vo, Paris, 1860. Edited by C. Carter Blake, Esq., F.G.S., Hon. Sec. A.S.L. (_Now ready._)

2. Pouchet. Pluralité des Races Humaines. 8vo, Paris, 1858. Edited by T. Bendyshe, Esq., M.A., F.A.S.L. (_In the Press._)

3. Carl Vogt. Vorlesungen über den Menschen, seine Stellung in der Schöpfung und in der Geschichte der Erde. 8vo, Giessen, 1868. Edited by Dr. James Hunt, F.S.A., Pres. A.S.L. (_In the Press._)

Translations of the following works are in progress:--

Gratiolet. Mémoire sur les Plis Cérébraux de l’Homme et des Primates. 4to, Paris, 1855. Edited by Dr. Daniel H. Tuke.

A. de Quatrefages. Unité de l’Espèce Humaine. 8vo, Paris, 1861. Edited by George F. Rolph, Esq., F.A.S.L.

Dr. Theodor Waitz, Professor of Philosophy in the University of Marburg. Anthropologie der Naturvölker. 1861. Second part. Edited by J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., F.G.S., F.R.S.L., Hon. Sec. A.S.L.

Gosse. Mémoire sur les Déformations Artificielles du Crâne. 8vo, Paris, 1855. Edited by Dr. Thurnam, F.S.A., F.A.S.L.

Retzius, Professor. The collected works of.

Sixth. By the appointment, from time to time, of various Committees authorised to report to the Society on particular topics which may be referred to them; the results of such investigations being in all cases communicated to the Society.

OFFICERS AND COUNCIL FOR 1864.

_President_--James Hunt, Esq., Ph.D., F.S.A., F.R.S.L., Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris, etc.

_Vice-Presidents_--Captain Richard F. Burton, H.M. Consul at Fernando Po, etc. Sir Charles Nicholson, Bart., D.C.L., LL.D., F.G.S., etc. The Duke of Roussillon.

_Honorary Secretaries_--C. Carter Blake, Esq., F.G.S., Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris, etc. J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., F.G.S., F.R.S.L., Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris.

_Honorary Foreign Secretary_--Alfred Higgins, Esq., Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris.

_Treasurer_--Richard Stephan Charnock, Esq., F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Foreign Associate of the Anthropological Society of Paris.

_Council._

Hugh J. C. Beavan, Esq., F.R.G.S. T. Bendyshe, Esq., M.A. W. Bollaert, Esq., F.R.G.S., Corr. Mem. Univ. Chile, and Ethno. Socs. London and New York. S. Edwin Collingwood, Esq., F.Z.S. George D. Gibb, Esq., M.A., M.D., F.G.S. J. Norman Lockyer, Esq., F.R.A.S. S. E. Bouverie-Pusey, Esq., F.E.S. W. Winwood Reade, Esq., F.R.G.S., Corr. Mem. Geographical Society of Paris. George E. Roberts, Esq. C. Robert des Ruffières, Esq., F.G.S., F.E.S. Dr. Berthold Seemann, F.L.S. William Travers, Esq., M.R.C.S. W. S. W. Vaux, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., F. and Hon. Sec. R.S.L., President of the Numismatic Society of London. George Witt, Esq., F.R.S.

The Terms of Membership for the first five hundred Fellows (who will be called Foundation Fellows) are Two Guineas per annum, which will entitle every Fellow to admission to the Meetings, one copy of the Quarterly Journal, the Memoirs of the Society, and a Volume (or Volumes) of the Translations printed by the Society. Life Members, Twenty Guineas.

Further particulars will be forwarded on application to the Honorary Secretaries.

The following Papers, amongst others, will be laid before the Society in the present session:--

R. LEE, Esq., F.A.S.L., On the Extinction of Races. (Read Jan. 19.)

T. BENDYSHE, Esq., M.A., F.A.S.L., On the Extinction of Races. (Ditto.)

PROFESSOR C. G. CARUS, Construction of the Upper Jaw in the Skull of a Greenlander. (With notes by C. CARTER BLAKE.) (Read Feb. 2.)

JAMES REDDIE, Esq., F.A.S.L., On Anthropological Desiderata. (Ditto.)

REV. J. M. JOASS, On Pictish Remains. (Read Feb. 16.)

DR. T. B. PEACOCK, F.A.S.L., Weight of the Brain in Negroes. (Ditto.)

C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., F.A.S.L., On the Neanderthal Skull. (Ditto.)

A. R. WALLACE, Esq., F.L.S., On the Theory of Natural Selection with reference to the Origin of Races. (Read March 1st.)

HERMANN DE SCHLAGINTWEIT, Ethnographical Casts. (Read March 15.)

DR. JOHN SHORTT, F.A.S.L., of Chingleput, On the Domber. (Read March 15.)

L. OWEN PIKE, Esq., M.A., F.A.S.L., On the Sciences of Mind and Language in Relation to Man. (Read March 15.)

H. F. J. GUPPY, Esq., F.A.S.L., On the Capabilities of the Negro Race for Civilisation. (Read March 15.)

CAPTAIN BURTON, V.P.A.S.L., and C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., On Skulls from Annabom, in the West African Seas.

The REV. F. W. FARRAR, M.A., On Hybridity.

DR. JOHN THURNAM, F.S.A., On the Crania of Early Britons.

A. HIGGINS, Esq., Hon. For. Sec. A.S.L., On the Orthographic Delineation of the Skull.

W. BOLLAERT, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L., Palæography of the New World.

DR. F. ROYSTON FAIRBANK, F.A.S.L., On the Discovery of Syphilis in a Monkey.

WILLIAM BOLLAERT, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L., On the Alleged Introduction of Syphilis from the New World.

G. E. ROBERTS, Esq., F.A.S.L., and C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., On Human Remains from Peterborough.

The REV. F. W. FARRAR, M.A., On the Alleged Universality of the Belief in a God.

DR. GEORGE D. GIBB, M.A., F.G.S., On some Abnormal Human Skulls.

GEORGE E. ROBERTS, Esq., F.A.S.L., On the Contents of a Bone-cave at Kirkhead, near Ulverstone.

C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., On some Human Remains from a Bone-cave in Brazil.

E. BURNET TYLOR, Esq., F.R.G.S., F.A.S.L., On some British Kjökkenmödings.