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Binding our serial publications is an item for which provision 

 should especially be made. We should also look forward to 

 the time when the inevitable extension of our collection of 

 books will require additional accommodation. For all these 

 necessities, we need, as I have often said before, additional 

 members. At the present time, as you will have gathered 

 from the Keport of the Council, we are stationary in this 

 respect ; but our change of abode ought to be a starting 

 point for acquiring a wider circle of interest in our work. 



Under the guidance of our able and painstaking Director, 

 Mr. Kudler, and presided over by the gentleman who, I trust, 

 you will elect in my place, the Institute cannot but flourish. 

 Mr. Francis Galton is a man of most versatile genius. He 

 is well known as an explorer of regions where man may be 

 studied under conditions most opposite to those which obtain 

 in our island. In one of his early adventurous expeditions 

 he visited Khartoum, a place then as unknown to English 

 ears as it is now unhappily familiar. His subsequent journey 

 in the opposite extremity of the African continent led to the 

 publication of very useful observations, and also to the work 

 called The Art of Travel. His ingenious researches on the 

 subject of characteristics transmitted by inheritance, and his 

 methods of testing physical capabilities, have frequently been 

 brought before the notice of the Institute. His anthro- 

 pometric laboratory, organised last year at the International 

 Health Exhibition, "brought before thousands the interest and 

 importance of the subject. I have much satisfaction in 

 resigning into his hands the office with which you have 

 honoured me for two consecutive years. 



