The Council of the Anthropological Society of London have much pleasure in reporting to the Fellows of the Society that they consider the state of the Society to be satisfactory and most encouraging. The past year has been one of great anxiety to the Council, inasmuch as the scheme proposed by the original circular of the Society was so vast, that the Council at first nearly despaired of being able to carry it out in all its particulars. The Council now beg to submit a few remarks on each of the objects for which the Society was founded, and also to add some suggestions for the consideration of the Society. _Meetings._ During the past year, _i.e._ since February 24, thirteen ordinary meetings of the Society have been held, at which twenty-four papers have been read, consisting of the following:-- DR. JAMES HUNT, President, On the Study of Anthropology. CAPTAIN R. F. BURTON, Vice-President, A Day among the Fans. PROFESSOR RAIMONDI, On the Indian Tribes of Loreto, in North Peru. R. T. GORE, Esq., On a Case of Microcephaly. ALFRED TYLOR, Esq., On the Discovery of Supposed Human Remains in the Tool-bearing Drift of Moulin-Quignon. DR. JULIUS SCHVARCZ, On the Permanence of Type. C. S. WAKE, Esq., On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals. W. BOLLAERT, Esq., Past and Present Populations of the New World. PROFESSOR JOHN MARSHALL, On a Case of Microcephaly. PROFESSOR GEORGE BUSK, On the Human Remains from so-called Brick Earth, at Luton, near Chatham, contributed by the Rev. H. F. Rivers. T. BENDYSHE, Esq., On Human Remains found at Barrington, in Cambridgeshire. R. S. CHARNOCK, Esq., On the Science of Language. W. WINWOOD READE, Esq., On the Bush Tribes of Equatorial Africa. C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., On Recent Evidence of the Extreme Antiquity of the Human Race. C. CARTER BLAKE, Esq., F.G.S., Report on the Anthropological Papers read before the British Association at Newcastle. PROFESSOR JOHN MARSHALL, F.R.S., On the Superficial Convolutions of a Microcephalic Brain. GEORGE E. ROBERTS, Esq., and PROFESSOR BUSK, F.R.S., Note on the Opening of a Kist at Burghead. CAPTAIN EUSTACE JACOB, Indian Tribes of Vancouver’s Island. DR. JAMES HUNT, F.S.A., Pres. A.S.L., The Negro’s Place in Nature. CLEMENTS R. MARKHAM, Esq., F.R.G.S., On Crystal Quartz Cutting Instruments of the Ancient Inhabitants of Chanduy, near Guayaquil. GEORGE E. ROBERTS, Esq., F.A.S.L., On the Discovery of Mammalian Bone, cut and sawn by Flint Implements at Audley End, Essex. A. BRYSON, Esq., F.G.S., On Human Remains from the Bin of Cullen (communicated by George E. Roberts, Esq., F.A.S.L.) DR. F. ROYSTON FAIRBANK, On Flint Arrowheads from Canada. COUNT OSCAR REICHENBACH, Vitality of the Coloured People in the United States. The Council hope that during the next year some most important and valuable memoirs will be laid before the Society.