The discussions have been satisfactory, and many Fellows and visitors had taken part in them. _Transactions._ The Council, at the early part of the year, made arrangements with Messrs. Trübner and Co. to publish the Journal of the Society in connection with the _Anthropological Review_. This has hitherto been carried out, and the Council think that the connection between the _Review_ and _Journal_ will soon be better understood. At first the _Journal_ was printed as part of the _Review_, but the Council have now made arrangements that the _Journal_ shall be paged differently, and it will then be seen for which part of this publication the Society is alone responsible. The _Journal_ for the ensuing year will occupy a far larger space than it has hitherto done. An offer was made to the Council of the copyright of the _Anthropological Review_, which the Council felt it their duty to decline. The _Memoirs_ have not yet been published, but a volume is now in the press. A general wish of the Fellows induced the Council to order the separate publication of the President’s paper “On the Negro’s Place in Nature,” which will, however, again appear in the forthcoming volume of _Memoirs_. _Museum._ Many valuable donations have been made to the Museum, and many other presents have been offered when a suitable place has been found for the deposit. The following gentlemen have made donations to the Museum:--Dr. James Hunt, Rev. H. F. Rivers, W. W. Reade, Esq., George Witt, Esq., Erasmus Wilson, Esq., C. Carter Blake, Esq., Dr. R. Fairbank, Captain R. F. Burton, R. T. Gore, Esq., T. Bendyshe, Esq., and A. A. Fraser, Esq.