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4, ST. MARTIN'S PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE. 



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 encouragement 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, therefore, 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 dif- 

 ferent parts of the world, to collect systematic information. 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 admis- 

 sible. 



Translations of the following works are now ready. 



Dr. THEODOR WAITZ. Introduction to Anthropology. First Part. Edited from 



the German by J. Frederick Collingwood, Esq., F.E.S.L., F.G.S., Hon, Sec. 



A.S.L., with corrections and additions by the Author. Price 16s. 

 BROCA, Dr. Paul. On the Phenomena of Hybridity in the Genus Homo. Edited 



from the French by C. Carter Blake, Esq., F.G.S. Price 5s. 

 POUCHBT, Georges. On the Plurality of the Human Eace. Edited, from the 



French (Second Edition), by H. J. C. Beavan, Esq., F.E.G.S., F^A.S.L. 



