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2. " On the Indians of South America." By Sir AVoodbiue 

 Parish, K.C.H., P.E.S., &c. — D'Orbigny supposes the number of 

 Indians now existing in that vast extent of country from the confines 

 of Bolivia to the southern extremity of Patagonia, not to exceed 

 32,000. But this is a much lower number than is generally given 

 to these Indians by the best-informed people at Buenos Ayres. 

 Azara, who gives a very full account of these tribes, says he could 

 count thirty-two languages amongst them, and this is vastly increased 

 if we adopt the lists given by the Jesuits. May they not, the 

 author asks, be generally classified under a very few heads or original 

 stocks ? — as, for example — 1. The Araucanian and Pampas Indians, 

 on the eastern side of the Andes, scattered over Patagonia — nomade 

 tribes, but stopped from proceeding northward by heat of climate 

 and rivers. They had no canoes, and subsisted by himting wild 

 animals, making cloaks of their skins. 2. The Tupis and Guaranis 

 of Brazil and Paraguay, a docile people cultivating the fruits of 

 intertropical climes. They were fishermen, and had canoes, in which 

 they were carried by the rivers flowing northward to great distances. 

 They grew cotton, and made clothing of it. 3. The Peruvians, the 

 Asmaras, and Quichuas — more or less in an advanced state of civili- 

 zation. They had llamas as beasts of burthen, and the wool of the 

 alpacca and vicunas to clothe them, and had established a system of 

 government under the Incas far superior to any other found in 

 America by the first European discoverers. 



AXNIYERSAET MEETING. 



May Tdrd, 18G5. 



Professor Busk, V.P. in the Chair. The Eeport of the Council 

 was read and adopted. The Treasurer's accounts showed a balance 

 of £170. in hand. The Officers and Council elected for the ensuing 

 year, are : — President: J. Crawfurd, Esq.; Vice-Presidents: Prof. 

 Busk ; J. Lubbock, Esq. ; Lord Talbot de Malahide ; and E. Dunn, 

 Esq. ; Honorary Treasurer : E. Hindmarsh, Esq. ; Hon. Secretaries : 

 T. Wright, Esq. ; and D. W. Nash, Esq.; Hon. Librarian: L.J. 

 Beale, Esq. ; Council : C. H. Bracebridge, Esq. ; L. J. Burke, Esq. ; 

 T. E. D. Croker, Esq. ; Sir A. W. Clavering, Bart. ; E. Galton, Esq. ; 

 J. Dickinson, Esq. ; J. Evans, Esq. ; Eev. E. W. Earrer ; A. W. 

 Eranks, Esq. ; T. Hodgkin, Esq. ; Prof Huxley : D. King, Esq. ; 

 J. Heywood, Esq. ; Sir E. I. Murchison ; Sir C. N'icholson, Bart. ; 

 J. Thrupp, Esq. ; C. E. Des Euffieres, Esq. ; W. Spottiswoode, Esq. ; 

 ai^d Dr. Thurnham. 



