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Happily such knowledge is being abundantly brought in by 

 workers in many lands, and, among others, by members of our 

 own Institute, whose contributions, published in our Journal, 

 form no mean addition to the general advancement of the 

 science. 



This leads me to speak of some of our own more immediate 

 affairs. During the past year two members of our Council 

 have been removed by death. Dr. Allen Thomson was for 

 many years an eminent and successful teacher of human 

 anatomy in the University of Glasgow. His researches into 

 the history of the early stages of development of the embryo 

 gained him a world-wide reputation, and he was beloved by 

 all who knew him personally for the singular modesty and 

 gentleness of his nature. He had been a Yice-President of 

 the Institute, and a contributor to its proceedings. Mr. 

 Alfred Tylor, the brother of our distinguished former 

 President, Dr. E. B. Tylor, though greatly interested in many 

 branches of Anthropology, and a frequent attendant at our 

 meetings, was better known as a geologist. He died at his 

 residence at Carshalton, on the last day of 1884, in the sixty- 

 first year of his age. 



At the conclusion of my address last year I announced that 

 a critical time was coming for the Institute, as circumstances 

 had rendered a change of domicile a necessity. The rooms 

 in St. Martin's Place, in which the Institute had met since 

 its foundation, were required for Government purposes, and 

 we were obliged to move elsewhere. I think it will be 

 generally admitted that the accommodation we have succeeded 

 in obtaining is in every way superior to that which we left 

 behind, and the annual cost will be but very trifling in excess 

 of that we were paying before. The expenses of moving and 

 of new fittings have, however, made a heavy inroad in our 

 slender income, and notwithstanding the special assistance of 

 some of our members to meet it, it was necessary to sell out 

 a portion of our capital stock. We ought to replace this, if 

 possible ; and, what is still more important, we ought to have 

 the means of spending more money upon our publications, 

 especially in illustrations, and more upon our library, for the 

 increase of which we are chiefly dependent upon donations. 



