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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. Trubner and Co. to publish the Journal 

 of the Society in connection with the Anthropological Revieiv. This 

 has hitherto been carried out, and the Council think that the connec- 

 tion between the Revieiv and Journal will soon be better understood. 

 At first the Journal was printed as part of the Review, but the Coun- 

 cil have now made arrangements that the Journal shall be paged differ- 

 ently, 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 publica- 

 tion 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 Mu- 

 seum, 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 gentle- 

 men: 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 



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