IxXXvi REPORT — 1897. 



For this purpose a Deputation should be appointed, and it would be well 

 to invite the Council of the Anthropological Institute to appoint two 

 members.' 



The Council resolved that the Trustees of the British Museum be re- 

 quested to consider whether they could allow the proposed Bureau to be 

 established in connection with the Museum : and if they are unable to 

 sanction this proposal, that the authorities of the Imperial Institute be 

 requested to undertake its establishment. 



The matter is now under the consideration of the Trustees of the 

 British Museum. 



The Report of the Corresponding Societies Committee for the past 

 year, together with the list of the Corresponding Societies and the titles 

 of the more important papers, and especially those referring to Local 

 Scientific Investigations, published by those Societies during the year 

 ending June 1, 1S97, has been received. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis 

 Galton, Professor E. Meldola {Chairman), Sir Douglas Galton, Dr. J. G. 

 Garson, Sir J. Evans, Mr. J. Hopkinson, Mr. W. Whitaker, Mr. G. J. 

 Symons, Professor T. G. Bonney, Mr. T. V. Holmes, Mr. Cuthbert Peek, 

 Mr. Horace T. Brown, Rev. J. O. Bevan, and Professor W. W. Watts is 

 hereby nominated for reappointment by the General Committee. 



The Council nominate Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., Chairman, and 

 Mr. John Hopkinson, Secretary, to the Conference of Delegates of 

 Corresponding Societies to be held during the Meeting at Toronto. 



In accordance with the regulations the retiring Members of the 

 Council will be : — 



Anderson, Sir W. 

 Foxwell, Professor. 

 Lodge, Professor 0. J. 



Vines, Professor. 



Ward, Professor Marshall. 



The Council recommend the re-election of the other ordinary Members 

 of the Council, with the addition of the gentlemen whose names are dis- 

 tinguished by an asterisk in the following list : — 



Boys, C. Vernon, Esq., F.K.S. 



Creak, Captain E. W., E.N., F.R.S. 

 *Darwin, F., Esq., F.R.S. 



Edgeworth, Professor F. T., M.A. 

 *Freinantle, The Hon. Sir C. W., K,C.B. 

 ♦Halliburton, Prafessor W. D., F.R.S. 



Harcourt, Professor L. F. Vernon, M. A., 

 M.Inst.C.E. 



Herdman, Professor W. A., F.R.S. 



Hopkinson, Dr. J., F.R.S. 



Horsley, Victor, Esq., F.R.S. 



Marr, J. E., Esq., F.R.S. 



Meldola, Professor R., F.R.S. 



Poulton, Professor E. B., F.R.S. 



Preece, W. H., Esq., C.B., F.R.S, 



Ramsay, Professor W., F.R.S. 



Reynolds, Professor J. Emerson, M.D., 

 F.R.S. 



Shaw, W. N., Esq., F.R.S. 



Symons, G. J., Esq., F.R.S. 



Teall, J. J. H., Esq., F.R.S. 



Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Esq., C.M.G., 

 F.R.S. 

 *Thompson, Professor S. P., F.R.S. 



Thomson, Professor J. M., F.R.S. 



Tylor, Professor E. B., F.R.S. 



Unwin, Professor W. C, F.R.S. 

 *White, Sir W. H., K.C.B., F.R.S. 



It was resolved last year, at the Liverpool Meeting, that two meetings 

 of the General Committee shall be held at Toronto, and that an adjourned 

 meeting shall be held in London at the beginning of November, for the 

 election of the President, Officers, and Council for 1897-8, and for fixing 

 the date of the Meeting in that year. The Council have arranged that 

 the adjourned meeting shall be held at the Rooms of the Royal Society, 

 Burlington House, on Friday, November 5, at 3 p.m. 



