1891] Archeology. and Ethnology. 173 
“<The Mental Evolution in the Organic Series,” by Madame Cle- 
mence Royer, 1887. 
** Microbes and Transformism,’’ by M. Bordier, 1888. 
‘Transformism Français, Lamarck,’’ by M. Mathias Duval, 1880. 
_ The regular lectures are given usually at four o’clock in the after- 
noon, from November to May inclusive, in the audience hall of the 
Societe d’Anthropologie at the Musée Dupuytren, 15 Rue de Ecole de 
la Medicine. While the lectures are open to the public and any one can 
attend, yet it is usual that those who propose attending regularly shall 
inscribe themselves, and obtain cards of admission. ‘They can then be 
assigned to a particular seat, which they can have without disturbance 
during the course. Thus there is obtained a record of the number of 
regular attendants. These are shown in the following table : 
Number of attendants at the regular courses of lectures given by the 
School of Anthropology from 1877 to 1889 inclusive : 
Sere 76 ee e eas ee 
TBE 1G i oe Oe eee 9,294 
1879 Bo a San a a e a . . 10,289 
T880 BE ee ee eee er ye a ge 9,719 
OST Be int es ee ree Da a 7,611 
1882—83 . a eg re ar e a A 8,343 
88584 o a a a e a 8,315 
en 8S a ee eee oe rene 
TORRE o, a a ee eee 8,742 
T886- 89 Go Se A eee 8,709 
1OSH88 Ce ae a 7,075 
1888—89... e ouaa a N eer 11,786 
The members of the Societe d’Anthropologie were actuated by a 
desire that their felluow-men should reap as much benefit as possible 
from their efforts, and so devoted whatever opportunities they might 
have, with whatever amount of labor it might be, to spread the news of 
their science, and to give such information to the people and education 
to the students as they could. So they have organized within them- 
_ Selves various societies, and have armed themselves in various ways for 
the accomplishment of their much-desired project. I can do no more 
with these than simply to mention their names and give a list of the 
works published. x 
There was organized a library called ‘‘ Contemporancous Science. 
A committee of direction and editing was appointed, and M. Rein- 
wald, rs Rue des Saint-Peres was chosen editor. The plan agreed upon 
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