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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

JANUARY 26TH, 1886.

FRANCIS GALTON, ESQ., F.R.S., President, in the Chair.

The Minutes of the last Anniversary Meeting were read and signed.

The PRESIDENT declared the ballot open, and appointed Mr. G. M. ATKINSON and Mr. M. J. WALHOUSE scrutineers.

Mr. F. G. H. PRICE, the Treasurer, read the following Report for the year 1885, which was adopted.

TREASURER'S REPORT FOR 1885.

The amount received from subscriptions still shows a steady increase, being £520 16s., against £514 10s. last year; we have also received £48 6s. for arrears, making a total of £569 2s., as against £534 9s. in 1884.

The sale of publications has produced rather less than last year, when the amount received was increased by exceptional sales, including some complete sets.

The total amount received, exclusive of £100 contributed by the Zoological Society towards the cost of Library fittings, has been £694 7s. 5d.; this shows an advance of £22 6s. 6d. upon the corresponding receipts of last year.

On the debit side, the first payment is for rent to the Zoological Society, £163 15s. The cost of printing four numbers of the Journal has been £163 3s. 6d., against £206 12s. 9d. last year, and £254 5s. 6d. in 1883. The illustrations have cost £27 8s. 8d., or £4 5s. 1d. less than those of the four previous numbers.

The cost of publishing Mr. Man's monograph on the Andaman Islanders has been £34 17s. 6d., and Miscellaneous printing has cost £28 11s., against £31 4s. 24d. last year, and £39 6s. 4d. in 1883.

The cost of postage and office expenses shows a slight increase over last year, but is less than in 1883.

The house expenses amount to £42 17s., being a reduction of £13 8s. 4d. on the payments made last year, and being less than the cost of previous years, but this included coals and lights, which are now paid for under the head of rent.

The balance is £176 17s. 11d., against £170 9s. 74d., showing an increase of £6 8s. 34d.

The total current expenses of the year have been £46 2s. 114d. less than the current expenses of last year, and £60 5s. 34d. less than in 1883.

The subscriptions in arrear amount to £176 8s., against £139 13s. this time last year; about two-thirds of this may be considered good.

Three life compositions have been received during the year, but as five compounders have died during the same period no money has been invested.

F. G. HILTON PRICE.

£964 16 0

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

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL OF THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND FOR 1885.

During the past year thirteen ordinary meetings have been held, in addition to the Anniversary Meeting. In the course of the year the following twenty-eight papers have been communicated to the Institute :

1. "On the People of East Equatorial Africa." By H. H. Johnston, Esq., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S.

2. "Notes on the Race-Types of the Jews." By Dr. A. Neubauer, M.A. 3. "The Racial Characteristics of Modern Jews." By Joseph Jacobs, Esq., B.A.

4. "Certain Burial Customs as illustrative of the Primitive Theory of the Soul." By James G. Fraser, Esq., M.A.

5. "The Sculptured Dolmens of the Morbihan." By Rear-Admiral F. S. Tremlett, F.R.G.S.

6. The Natives of New Ireland and its Archipelago." By A. J. Duffield, Esq.

7. "Hints on Vision-Testing." By R. Brudenell Carter, Esq., F.R.C.S.

8. "Eyesight of Savage and Civilised People." By C. Roberts, Esq., F.R.C.S. 9. On the Inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego." By J. G. Garson, Esq., M.D. 10. "The Kekip-Sesoators, or Ancient Sacrificial Stone of the North-West Tribes of Canada." By Mons. Jean L'Heureux.

11. On the Past and Present Condition of Certain Rude Stone Monuments in Westmoreland." By A. L. Lewis, Esq., F.C.A.

12. "The Origin and Characteristics of the Maoris in the King Country, New Zealand." By J. H. Kerry-Nicholls, Esq., F.R.G.S.

13.

On the Lapps." By Prof. A. H. Keane, B.A.

14. "The Physical Characteristics of the Lapps." By J. G. Garson, Esq., M.D.

15. "The Language of the Eskimo." By Dr. H. Rink.

16. "On the Physical Characteristics of the Natives of the Solomon Islands." By H. B. Guppy, Esq., M.B., F.G.S.

17. "On the Sakais." By Abraham Hale, Esq.

18.

Notes on the Astronomical Customs and Religious Ideas of the Chokitapia or Blackfeet Indians." By Mons. Jean L'Heureux.

19. "Observations on the Mexican Zodiac and Astrology." By Hyde Clarke, Esq.

20. "On the Primary Divisions and Geographical Distribution of Mankind." By James Dallas, Esq., F.G.S.

21. "

Bryant, D.Sc.

Experiments on Testing the Characters of School Children." By Mrs. 22. "A Comparative Estimate of Jewish Ability." By Joseph Jacobs, Esq., B.A.

23. "Insular Greek Customs." By J. Theodore Bent, Esq.

24. "A Game with a History." By J. W. Crombie, Esq., M.A.

25. "Migrations of the Kurnai Ancestors (Gippsland).” By A. W. Howitt, Esq.

26. "The Nicobar Islanders, with special reference to the Inland Tribe of Great Nicobar." By E. H. Man, Esq.