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At the close of the address a vote of thanks was moved by Judge 

 Arthur McArthur, of the Supreme bench of the District of Columbia, 

 and passed unanimously. 



The President announced that by direction of the Council there 

 would be no regular meeting of the Society until the third Tuesday 

 in November. 



Eighty-Fifth Regular Meeting, November i8, 1884. 



Major J. W. Powell, President, in the Chair. 



The President stated that by action of the Council a place for the 

 future meetings of the Society had been secured at the Columbian 

 University. 



The Secretary of the Council announced the election of Mr. M. 

 D. Kerr, of the U. S. Geological Survey, as an active member of 

 the Society. 



A paper entitled "Australian Group Relations," by Alfred 

 W. Howitt of Gippsland, Australia, was then read by Col. Seely.* 



Eighty-Sixth Regular Meeting, December 2, 1884. 



Major J. W. Powell, President, in the Chair. 



The Secretary of the Council announced the election as active 

 members of Messrs. Victor Mindeleff, Cosmos Mindeleff, Wm. M. 

 Poindexter, and Wm. H. Babcock. 



Dr. Franz Boas read a paper on " The Eskimo of Baffin Land.' ' 



Although the shores of Baffin Land have been visited by whalers 

 for a very long time, there was still little known about the Eskimo 

 tribes inhabiting this tract of land. 



The southwesternmost region, the land about King's Cape, is 

 called by the natives Sicosuilar, /. e., a land which has no fixed ice 

 floe during the winter. It is inhabited by the Sicosuilarmiut, who 

 go deer hunting in the low land farther north. They have inter- 

 course with the natives of the north shore of Labrador, the Iglu- 



* Printed in the Smithsonian Report for 1883. 



