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College should be made, and the necessary measurements taken, so as 

 to allow of an approximate standard set of dimensions, for the 

 principal races, to be laid down. With this standard all subsequently 

 obtained Crania should be compared, and the standard itself modified 

 according to the results so obtained." 



The Chairman observed that he felt much obliged to Mr. Campbell for 

 bringing the subject forward. It was a subject to which he had called the 

 Society's attention some years ago at one of their annual meetings 

 and he believed that the Circular to which Mr. Campbell had just allud- 

 ed, was the consequence of his remarks on that occasion. Without 

 venturing to anticipate the report, which the Council would have 

 prepared for the next meeting, he expressed his fears that it would 

 be an unsatisfactory one, as that but few Crania had been gained for the 

 Society's collection. The difficulty of obtaining Crania of unmistake- 

 able identity was very great, and when they were of doubtful identity, 

 they were hardly of any value. As regards the skull of the Andamaner 

 on the table which Mr. Campbell had particularly referred to, there 

 was no guarantee that it was what it purported to be, having only 

 been found in the hut of an Andamaner. He hoped that Col. Dalton's 

 promised paper on the Koles would be received before the next meeting, 

 and he expressed his belief that Mr. Campbell might rely on the Society's 

 cordial cooperation in prosecuting these ethnological enquiries. 



The Council reported, that the draft Act, for the establishment of the 

 New General Museum, had been prepared and submitted to Government 

 for approval by the Museum Transfer Committee. A copy of the draft 

 had been sent to the Council. The Secretary then read the purport of 

 the several clauses of the Act, and the Chairman explained that a 

 special meeting would hereafter be called for its consideration, and for 

 the Society's final ratification of the conditions of transfer. 



The following is an extract from a letter received from Mr. C. Home. 



" I found amongst the effects of a deceased pilgrim, a packet of 

 little stamped silver bits (I will try, and send you 2 or 3) of which the 

 last very interesting paper put me in mind. They are punched, 

 and I, in my ignorance, took them for Japanese coins. The silver is 

 much alloyed. 



" Here are correct drawings of the only 7 I have preserved. They 

 are of very nearly equal weight (the differences between them being 



