Address delivered at the fourth annual meeting of the Anthropological Society of London / by James Hunt.

  • James Hunt
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[1867]
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Credit: Address delivered at the fourth annual meeting of the Anthropological Society of London / by James Hunt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    /' / / ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE FOUllTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ANTHKOPO- LOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. By JAMES HUNT, Esq., Ph.D., etc.. President. Gentlemen,—I appear before you this day' to perform my last duty as your president. As my efforts to promote the interests of this Society during the past four years have so often met with your approval, and as I have so often received marks of your kindness and confidence, I am tempted to ask you to bear with me for a short period while I touch on a few subjects which appear to me to deserve especial attention as bearing on the future history and working of our Society. I had intended to give you on this occasion a succinct history of the origin and development of this Society. I feel, however, that the future is of so much more consequence than the past, that I have relinquished the design of speaking of the past, in order to be able to offer a few remarks on the present and the future of the SocietiL The time, too, has probably not arrived when great advantage would be gained, cither to the Society or to Science, by detailing our past his- tory. AVhat we have done is mostly before the world, and, for the present, I must leave each one to form his own opinion of the same. I shall endeavour to restrain a somewhat natural glow of satisfaction at what this Society has effected for anthropological science in this country. All I shall do will be to ask each Fellow to examine into and compare the state of anthropological science in England in the year 18G2, and in the year I860. The change is greater than many can well realise, and how far our Society has been instrumental in effecting this change, I must leave for your decision on some fiiture occasion. The late illustrious President of our sister Society in Paris, Dr. Pruner-Bcy, has, like many continental men of science, expressed his surprise at the progress of our Society. He writes thus. I must confess that I never expected such rapid and solid progress from that side of the channel, considering that even a few yearn ago it w'ould have been impossible even to discuss matters there publicly which now form a starting point in your researches.” The primary principle, and most important object in forming this Societv, was to endeavour to promote the study of anthropology in
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