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HIS SOCIETY is formed with the object of 

 promoting the study of Anthropology in a strictly 

 scientific manner. It proposes to study Man in 

 all his leading aspects, physical, mental, and 

 historical ; to investigate the laws of his origin 

 and progress ; to ascertain his place in nature and 

 his relations to the inferior forms of life ; and to attain these 

 objects by patient investigation, careful induction, and the en- 

 couragement of all researches tending to establish a de facto 

 science of man. No Society existing in this country has proposed 

 to itself these aims, and the establishment of this Society, there- 

 fore, is an effort to meet an obvious want of the times. 



This it is proposed to do : 



First. By holding Meetings for the reading of papers and 

 the discussion of various anthropological questions. 



Second. By the publication of reports of papers and abstracts 

 of discussions in the form of a Quarterly Journal ; and also 

 by the publication of the principal memoirs read before 

 the Society, in the form, of Transactions. 



Third. By the appointment of Officers, or Local Secretaries, 

 in different parts of the world, to collect systematic in- 

 formation. It will be the object of the Society to indicate 

 the class of facts required, and thus tend to give a systematic 

 development to Anthropology. 



Fourth. By the establishment of a carefully collected and 

 reliable Museum, and a good reference Library. 



Fifth. By the publication of a series of works on Anthropology 

 which will tend to promote the objects of the Society. These 

 works will generally be translations; but original works 

 will also be admissible. 



The translation of the following work is now ready. 



Dr. Theodor Waitz, Professor of Philosophy in the University of 

 Marburg. Authropologie der Naturvolker. 1861. First Part. 

 Edited by J. Frederick Colliugwood, Esq., F.R.S.L., F.G.S., Hon. 

 Sec. A.S.L., with corrections and additions by the Author. 



