ARTICLE XIII.-Meetings. The regular meetings of the Society shall be held on the first and the third Tuesday of each month from October to June, inclusive. An annual meeting for the election of officers shall be held on the third Tuesday of January in each year, at which only active members who are not in arrears for fees shall be entitled to vote. The business of the Society shall be conducted in accordance with the established rules of parliamentary practice. Papers shall be limited to twenty minutes, after which the subject shall be thrown open for discussion, remarks thereon to be limited to five minutes for each speaker. At the first meeting in February the retiring president shall deliver an address upon the work of the Society during the preceding year. Ten active members present at any meeting shall constitute a quorum. ARTICLE XIV.-Visitors. Members may invite strangers interested in Anthropology to attend any meeting except the annual election; but a resident of the District of Columbia shall not be invited more than once during a year, except with the consent of the Council. ARTICLE XV.-Fees. Each member, on joining, shall pay the sum of two dollars, and two dollars for each year thereafter, commencing with the first of January ensuing. The names of members failing to pay their fees one month after written notice from the Treasurer, as provided in Article XI, shall be dropped from the roll. ARTICLE XVI.-Donations. It shall be the duty of all members to seek to increase and perfect the materials of anthropological study in the national collections at Washington. All donations of specimens, books, pamphlets, maps, photographs, and newspaper clippings, shall be received by the Corresponding Secretary and delivered to the Curator, who shall exhibit them before the Society at the next regular meeting after their reception, and shall make such abstract or entry concerning them, in a book provided by the Society, as will secure their value as materials of research; after which all archæological and ethnological materials shall be deposited in the National Museum, in the name of the donor and of the Society; all crania and somatic specimens, in the Army Medical Museum; all books, pamphlets, photographs, clippings, and abstracts, in the archives. of the Society. ARTICLE XVII.-Amendments. This constitution shall not be amended except by a three-fourths vote of the active members present at the annual meeting for the election of officers, and after notice of the proposed change shall have been given in writing at a regular meeting of the Society, at least one month previously. ARTICLE XVIII.-Order of Business. The order of business at each regular meeting shall be: 2. Report of the Council upon membership. 5. Reading of papers and discussions. 6. Notes and queries. The third meeting was held February 24, 1879, at which the officers of the Society for the ensuing year were elected. The following were the officers chosen : The first Regular Meeting of the Society was held, pursuant to the above constitution, on Tuesday evening, March 4, 1879, and bi-weekly meetings have since taken place regularly, as provided for in Article XIII. The Regents' Room of the Smithsonian Institution, through the courtesy of Prof. Spencer F. Baird, Secretary of the Institution, was occupied as the place of meeting until January 18, 1881, when the offer of the Faculty of the National Medical College, of the use for this purpose of the lower Lecture Hall of the College was formally considered and accepted, at which place the Society has since met. During the first three years of the Society, viz., from March 4, 1879, to January 3, 1882, sixty-eight papers were read and three presidential addresses delivered. The number of papers presented in the year 1879-'80, was twenty-seven, the number in the year 1880-'81, was nineteen, and the number in the year 1881-'82, was twenty-two. Abstracts of most of the papers have been furnished and many of them have been published entire in different ways. The papers read during the first two years were collected together by the President at the end of the second year, and abstracts of them published by him as data for his annual address for that year in compliance with a clause in Article XIII of the Constitution. These abstracts, chronologically arranged, together with the presidential address of the previous year, and that for the second year, with an index, were published by the President under the following title: "Abstract of Transactions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C., with the Annual Address of the President, for the First Year ending January 20, 1880, and for the Second Year ending January 18, 1881. Prepared by J. W. Powell. Washington, 1881." The whole forms a pamphlet of 150 pages, and constitutes a valuable record of the Society during its first two years. The expenses of this publication were, by a vote of the Society and Council, divided equally between the Society and the President. The abstracts and addresses published in this work will not be republished in the present volume, but reference will be made in each case to the page on which they occur. At the annual meeting held January 17, 1882, several amendments to the Constitution, proposed by a committee appointed for the purpose, were considered by the Society and adopted. The following is the present Constitution as amended at that meeting : AMENDED CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE I.-Name. The name of this Society shall be "THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON." ARTICLE II.-Object. The object of this Society shall be to encourage the study of the Natural History of Man, especially with reference to America, and shall include Somatology, Sociology, Philology, Philosophy, Psychology, and Technology. ARTICLE III.-Members. The members of this Society shall be persons who are interested in Anthropology, and shall be divided into three classes: Active, Corresponding, and Honorary. The active members shall be those who reside in Washington, or in its vicinity, and who shall pay the dues required by Article XV. Failure to comply with this provision within two months after notice of election, unless satisfactorily explained to the Council, shall render the election void. Corresponding members shall be those who are engaged in anthropological investigations in other localities; honorary members shall be those who have contributed by authorship or patronage to the advancement of Anthropology. Corresponding or honorary members may become active members by paying the fee required by Article XV. All members shall be elected by the Council and by ballot, as follows: The name of the candidate shall be recommended to the Council, in writing, by two members of the Society, and eight affirmative ballots shall be necessary to an election. No person shall be entitled to the privileges of active membership before paying the admission fee provided in Article XV. ARTICLE IV.-Officers. The officers of this Society shall be a President, four Vice Presidents, a General Secretary, a Secretary to the Council, a Treasurer, and a Curator, all of whom, together with six other active members, shall constitute a Council, all to be elected by ballot at each annual |