ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 11 



The first Regular Meeting of the Society was held, pursuant to 

 the above constitution, on Tuesday evening, March 4, 1879, an d 

 bi-weekly meetings have since taken place regularly, as provided for 

 in Article XIII. 



The Regents' Room of the Smithsonian Institution, through the 

 courtesy of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Institution, 

 was occupied as the place of meeting until January 18, 1881, when 

 the offer of the Faculty of the National Medical College, of the 

 use for this purpose of the lower Lecture Hall of the College was 

 formally considered and accepted, at which place the Society has 

 since met. 



During the first three years of the Society, viz., from March 

 4, 1879, to January 3, 1882, sixty-eight papers were read and 

 three presidential addresses delivered. The number of papers pre- 

 sented in the year i879-'8o, was twenty-seven, the number in the 

 year 1880-81, was nineteen, and the number in the year i88i-'82, 

 was twenty-two. 



Abstracts of most of the papers have been furnished and many 

 of them have been published entire in different ways. The papers 

 read during the first two years were collected together by the Presi- 

 dent at the end of the second year, and abstracts of them published 

 by him as data for his annual address for that year in compliance 

 with a clause in Article XIII of the Constitution. These abstracts, 

 chronologically arranged, together with the presidential address of 

 the previous year, and that for the second year, with an index, were 

 published by the President under the following title : "Abstract 

 of Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, 

 D. C, with the Annual Address of the President, for the First Year 

 ending January 20, 18S0, and for the Second Year ending January 

 18, 1881. Prepared by J. W. Powell. Washington, 1881." 



The whole forms a pamphlet of 150 pages, and constitutes a 

 valuable record of the Society during its first two years. The ex- 

 penses of this publication were, by a vote of the Society and Coun- 

 cil, divided equally between the Society and the President. 



