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MALLERY. 
perhaps it may more properly belong to a society entitled 
Anthropological than to one entitled Geographical. Can¬ 
dor, however, requires the admission that the several socie¬ 
ties referred to, notwithstanding their redundant constitu¬ 
tions, all work on distinct and genuine lines. 
It would ill become me personally to speak disparagingly 
of these offshoots of the Philosophical stem, being one of the 
three persons who founded the Anthropological, the first of 
these societies which took independent form, and being also 
naturally attracted to it as the specialty most closely con¬ 
nected with my own field of work. Yet the motive of my 
action was “Not that I loved Csesar less” nor “that I loved 
Pome more.” To pass from one to another of Shakspere’s 
plays and from the Tiber to the Adriatic, if I shall ever be 
forced, like Desdemona, to “ perceive here a divided duty,” I 
shall at least refuse to elope from home, seduced by travel¬ 
ers’ tales about— 
The Anthropophagi and men whose heads 
Do grow beneath their shoulders. 
That there was necessity as well as propriety in securing 
greater facilities to the special students of Washington than 
was afforded by the Society which had been entirely ade¬ 
quate to meet the earlier conditions, is demonstrated by the 
fact that at least four other organizations (apart from the 
still more specialized societies, such as the Microscopic and 
the Entomologic) are now in active operation, each hold¬ 
ing about the same number of meetings and presenting 
to good audiences papers not less in number than were 
and still are recorded of the Philosophical Society. The 
combined active membership of the five societies is five 
hundred and fifty, no name being counted more than once, 
though often appearing on several lists. The names on the 
consolidated list show that they are there not for honor¬ 
ary or financial considerations, but from genuine interest. A 
goodly proportion of the members are frequent attendants at 
the meetings, and the two customary hours of the sessions 
for one hundred meetings, being about the total of all the 
