Signed on behalf of the Council,
xxxxxxxxxxJames Hunt, Chairman.
Anthropological Society of London.
4, ST. MARTIN’S PLACE, TRAFALGAR SQUARE.
HIS Society is formed with the object of promoting the study of Anthropology in a strictly scientific manner. It proposes to study Man in all his leading aspects, physical, mental, and historical; to investigate the laws of his origin and progress; to ascertain his place in nature and his relations to the inferior forms of life; and to attain these objects by patient investigation, careful induction, and the encouragement of all researches tending to establish a de facto science of man. No Society existing in this country has proposed to itself these aims, and the establishment of this Society, therefore, is an effort to meet an obvious want of the times.
This it is proposed to do:
First. By holding Meetings for the reading of papers and the discussion of various anthropological questions.
Second. By the publication of reports of papers and abstracts of discussions in the form of a Quarterly Journal; and also by the publication of the principal memoirs read before the Society, in the form of Transactions.