* Received too late to pay into Bank on 31st December.

£766 2 3

Mr. F. W. RUDLER, the Secretary, then read the following Report:

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FOR THE YEAR 1887.

During the past year the Institute has held thirteen ordinary meetings, in addition to the Annual General Meeting.

The following list gives the titles of the papers and other communications which have been brought before the Institute during the year :

1. "Notes on the Tribes of the Nile Valley North of Khartum." tenant-Colonel Sir Charles Wilson, R.E., K.C.B.

By Lieu

2. "The Functional Topography of the Brain.” By Professor Ferrier, F.R.S.

3. Description of the Cerebral Hemispheres of an Adult Australian Male.” By H. D. Rolleston, Esq., B.A.

4. "On a Fossil Human Skull from Lagoa Santa, Brazil." By Sören Hansen, Esq. 5. "

Stone Circles near Aberdeen." By A. L. Lewis, Esq., F.C.A. 6. "Paleolithic Implements from the Drift Gravels of the Singrauli Basin, South Mirzapore." By J. Cockburn, Esq.

7. "Stone Implements from Perak." By Abraham Hale, Esq. 8. "On the Migrations of the Eskimo." By Dr. H. Rink. 9. "Notes on the Inhabitants of the Polynesian Islands." Trotter, Esq.

10. "Exhibition of Aborigines from North Queensland." Cunningham.

By Coutts

By Mr. R. A.

11. "On the Ethnological bearings of the Stone Spinning-top of New Guinea." By Mr. C. H. Read, F.S.A.

12. "Extracts from Notes on Natives of the Solomon Islands." Communicated by Lieutenant F. Elton, R.N.

13. "On the Operation of Trephining during the Neolithic Period in Europe; and on the probable method and object of its performance." By Professor Victor Horsley, F.R.S.

14. "Comparison between the Recuperative Bodily Power of Man in Rude and in Highly Civilised Life." By George Harley, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.

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On the Evidence for Mr. McLennan's Theory of the Primitive Human Horde." By G. L. Gomme, Esq.

16. "On the Dieyerie Tribe of South Australia." By Samuel Gason, Esq. Communicated, with Notes, by J. G. Frazer, Esq., M.A.

17. "Exhibition of 'Hag-stones' from Kincardineshire, with Notes." By the Right Hon. the Earl of Ducie.

18. "Exhibition of Guancho Skulls, with Notes." By Henry Wallach, Esq. 19. "Hittite Ethnology." By Captain C. R. Conder, R.E.

20. "On an Ancient British Settlement excavated near Rushmore, Salisbury." By Lieutenant-General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S.

21. "On the Stature of the Older Races of England, as estimated from the Long Bones." By John Beddoe, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.

22. Exhibition of Implements and Works of Art from the Lower Congo. By Major-General Sir Frederic Goldsmid, K.C.S.I., and by Delmar Morgan, Esq. 23. The Lower Congo; a Sociological Study." By R. C. Phillips, Esq.

24. The Primitive Seat of the Aryans." By the Rev. Canon Isaac Taylor, LL.D., Litt.D.

25. "The Maori and the Moa." By Edward Tregear, Esq.

26. "The Shell Money of New Britain." By the Rev. Benjamin Danks.

27. "On the Evolution of a Characteristic Pattern on the Shafts of Arrows from the Solomon Islands." By Henry Balfour, Esq., M.A. 28. "Tattooing." By Miss A. W. Buckland.

29. "On the occurrence of Stone Mortars in the Ancient (Pliocene?) River Gravels of Butte County, California." By Sydney B. J. Skertchly, Esq., F.G.S.

In addition to the work represented by this list of papers a course of three lectures on "Heredity and Nurture" has been delivered by the President in the theatre of the South Kensington Museum. These lectures were attended by large and appreciative audiences, and at the close of each lecture the use. of the simpler kinds of anthropometric instruments was explained and illustrated.

The Institute is indebted to the Lords of Committee of Council on Education for granting the free use of the theatre for this purpose.

The four numbers of the Journal, published with punctuality during the year, viz., Nos. 58, 59, 60, and 61, contain 386 pages of letterpress with 10 plates of illustrations.

During the past year 9 new members have been elected, while the Institute has lost, through death, 11 ordinary members, 3 honorary members and 1 corresponding member.

Thirty-seven members have either retired or been removed from the list in consequence of their subscriptions having been long in arrear, the Council having thought it desirable to subject the list to a searching revision, and to remove the names of those whose subscriptions had been long unpaid. Three old annually subscribing members have compounded during the year.

The former and present state of the Institute, with regard to the number of members, are shown in the following table:

Honorary. Corresponding. Compounders. Ordinary. Total.

The Council regrets to report the decease of the following Members-Honorary Members-Prof. A. Ecker, Prof. A. F. Pott, Dr. C. Rau; Corresponding Member-Sir Julius von

Haast; Ordinary Members-Lady Brassey, Mr. H. Crowley, Mr. J. O. Griffits, Sir W. Vernon Guise, Bart., Mr. G. Hawkins, Mr. J. E. Lee, Mr. Hugh Brooke Low, Mr. Karl F. Nordmann, Mr. F. E. Robinson, Mrs. Erminie E. Smith, and Mr. Hodder M. Westropp.

The Council has to report that it has undertaken, at the request of the British Association Committee, the preparation of a new edition of the volume of "Anthropological Notes and Queries," in consequence of the receipt of the following letter from the Secretary of the Association Committee, which was submitted to the Council at their meeting on October 25th :DEAR SIR,

The Committee of the British Association, consisting of General Pitt-Rivers, Dr. Beddoe, Prof. Flower, Mr. Francis Galton, Dr. E. B. Tylor, and Dr. Garson, appointed for the purpose of re-editing a new edition of "Anthropological Notes and Queries," with authority to distribute gratuitously the unsold copies of the present edition, having been re-appointed, desire to give effect to the following proposal in their report of the past year to the British Association :

"The Committee, after carefully considering the question of how the preparation of the new edition can be most efficiently done, strongly recommend that the work be entrusted to the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; that body being specially and permanently organised for the purpose of advancing the various branches of anthropology; and having many facilities not possessed by a committee, such as a Council which meets regularly and at short intervals during the greater part of the year, is peculiarly well fitted to carry out the necessary arrangements for a thorough revision of the work, and of afterwards bringing it under the notice of those for whom it is intended. The Committee has reason to believe that the Anthropological Institute would be willing to undertake the task and to proceed with the work during the ensuing winter."

They, therefore, ask the Council of the Anthropological Institute whether they are willing to undertake the editing of the new edition of "Anthropological Notes and Queries."

The sum of 501. has been placed at their disposal, which they would hand over to the Council of the Institute if they accept the task, as well as a supplementary sum of 107. contributed as an additional subsidy by Dr. Muirhead.

I am, yours truly,

(Signed) J. G. GARSON, Secretary of the Committee.

The President of the Anthropological

Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.