Letters to the ASL. 1865-6; and [1 Jan. 1867], A-D, G-S (incomplete).
Abbreviations
HJCBÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Hugh J.C. Beavan, FRGS, Joint Hon. Secretary and Hon. Foreign Secretary
CCBÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Charles Carter Blake, Curator and Librarian, and Hon. Secretary
RSCÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Richard Stephen Charnock, FSA, FRGS, Treasurer, later Vice President
JFCÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â J. Fred. Collingwood, FGS, Assistant Secretary, later Secretary and Librarian
DIHÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Rev. Dunbar I. Heath, Treasurer and Trustee
JHÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â James Hunt, FSA, President
JASLÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Journal of the Anthropological Society of London
MASLÂ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Memoirs read before the Anthropological Society of London
1    Henry John Adams, 14 Thornhill Square, N to CCB, nd – encloses subscription
2    Thomas Aitkin, MD, District Lunatic Asylum, Inverness to CCB, 1 Feb. 1866 – subscription to Paris Anthropological Society
3    Ibid., 26 Feb. – encloses subscriptions to the ASL and Paris Society
4    A. Alexander, 15A St Helen’s Place, Bishopsgate St., London to CCB, 26 Jan. 1866 – ASL rules requested
5    Frederick Aley, 8 Thurloe Place, SW to DIH, 13 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
6    Edward C. Anderson, White Hart St., Thetford, Norfolk to RSC, 12 June 1866 – subscription and change of address sent
7    Joseph Anderson (ASL Local Secretary, Orkney Islands), John O’Groats Journal Office, Wick, 7 Apr. 1865 – proofs of Report [on ancient remains of Caithness]; skeletal material sent from Kettleburn and the Camster cairn; see JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxi-vi, cxxxix-clxx; and ‘Report on excavations in Caithness cairns, conducted for the Anthropological Society of London by Messrs J. Anderson and R.I. Shearer, in 1866’ by Joseph Anderson, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 216-42; and p. 243, ‘Note on a skull from the cairn of Get, Caithness, discovered by Joseph Anderson’ by C. Carter Blake
8    Ibid., 28 Sep. – Mr Dunnet’s relics sent to ASL; mound near Keiss Bay similar to Birkle Hill; excavating cairn at Camster
9    Ibid., 3 Apr. 1866 – doubts as to Samuel Laing’s reliability on the Keiss site, 8 pp.; see ‘On some ancient shell-mounds and graves in Caithness’, JASL, 1864, pp. xx-xxxviii in Anthrop. Rev. vol. 3, 1865
10    Ibid., 11 Apr. – despatch of skull described by Dr Banks; skull and pelvis sent; hopes to obtain proofs of articles in John O’Groats Journal
11    Ibid., 12 May – corrects an error in his ‘Report’
12    Ibid., 20 June – acknowledges £10 grant; outlines possible future plans (letter incomplete)
13    Ibid., 13 Aug. – acknowledges proofs of his ‘Report’; John Cleghorn and R.I. Shearer expecting copies of the J. Anthrop. Soc. London containing their Keiss papers; skulls not yet sent. 6 pp. see ‘A new reading of shell mounds and graves in Caithness’ and ‘On human remains at Keiss’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxix-Catalogued, clvii-clxiii respectively
14    Ibid., 18 Aug. – proofs sent
15    William Armitage, Armitage & Rigbys, Spinners & Manufacturers, Manchester to DIH, 14 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
16    Jas. Armstrong, Hon. Curator and Librarian, Andersonian University, Glasgow, 6 Feb. 1866 – acknowledges exchange volumes of Anthrop. Rev.
17    Rodolph Arundell, Admiralty, Somerset House; 14 Montagu Place, W., 29 Jan. 1866 – requests ticket for St James’ Hall meeting; see 169
18    Charles Frederick Ash, Iron Warehouse, 20 Upper Thames Street, EC to RSC, 24 July 1866 – on subscription, annotated by RSC
19    John Ashbury, 9 Sussex Place, Hyde Park Gardens, W, nd – encloses subscription (embossed heading removed)
20    Henry George Atkinson, FGS, 18 Upper Gloucester Place, NW, 18 Dec. 1865 – on the identification of a cast; unable to attend meeting next day
21    Ibid., 11 Jan. 1866 – encloses subscription; discusses ?phrenology. 4 pp.
22    George F. Aston, Bounty Office, Dean’s Yard, Westminster to CCB, 27 Jan. 1866 – acknowledges ticket for Special Meeting; see 169
23    Charles C. Babington, FRS, Prof. of Botany, Cambridge University, 14 Mar. 1866 – on his address
24    James Bain, 3 Park Terrace, Glasgow; Junior Carlton Club, London, 25 Dec. 1865 – on his address
25    T. Baines, 15 Whitehall Place, SW to CCB, 24 Oct. 1865 – submits his charge for diagrams sent; see his ‘On certain implements and articles of dress from South Africa’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cii-cviii
26    Ibid., 21 Northumberland Street, 30 Jan. 1866 – on stamp duty
27    Ibid., 6 Feb. – on his specimens and sketches made during his African travels
28    Ibid., 16 Aug. – on Frederick Green’s journey from Damaraland to the Cun?n? river and his indebtedness to Chikongo, an Ovampo Chief, for guides
29    J.P. Baker, MRCS, 6 York Place, Portman Square, W to JFC, 1 May 1866 – encloses subscription
30    (Sir) Samuel W. Baker, 13 Arlington Place, NW, author of The Albert N’yanza, 1866; Ismaili’a: a narrative of the expedition to Central Africa, 1874, etc., 20 Nov. 1865 – willing to give talk on Central Africa
31    Ibid., 34 Chester Terrace, Regent’s Park, NW, 25 Apr. 1866 – willing to give talk after 20 June; talk does not appear to have been delivered
32    T. Bakewell, 6 Haverstock Terrace, Hampstead to CCB, 16 Nov. [1865] – reports that K.R.H. Mackenzie, FSA is anxious to see account of his speech [14 Nov.], JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xiii-xiv, annotated by C.C. Blake
33    Ibid., 6 Dec. – report enclosed of speeches of last meeting [5 Dec.], JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xviii-xxxi
34    Ibid., 20 Dec. – unable to send report of previous night’s meeting until next week; requests copy of Dunbar I. Heath’s paper, ‘On the primary anthropoid and secondary mute origin of the European races …’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xxxiii-xlviii
35    Ibid., 29 Dec. – report enclosed of Prof. Max Müller’s speech at last meeting [19 Dec.], JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xlvi-xlviii
36    Ibid., 17 Feb. 1866 – despatch of report of previous meeting [6 Feb.]
37    Ibid., 12 Mar. – ibid. [6 Mar.] and comments on C.C. Blake’s talk, ‘Certain simious skulls …’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxvi-vii
38    Ibid., 7 May – [1 May]
39    Ancell Ball, Spalding, medical practitioner to HJCB, 7 May 1866 – suggests 2 subscription rates: town and country
40    Frederick P. Baslee (?Barlee), Perth, Western Australia to CCB, 26 Dec. 1865 – though interested in membership lacks the time; suggests Henry Maxwell Lefroy, Fremantle as qualified to send information on the Aborigines
41    Henry Walter Barlow, 55 Eversfield Place, St Leonards, 28 May 1866 – encloses subscription; expresses pleasure at the success of ASL and the gradual disappearance of prejudices
42    Thomas S. Barrett, MA, Langley House, Grove Lane, Camberwell, 5 Apr. 1866 – requests information on subscription, annotated by CCB
43    Ibid., 6 Apr. – encloses subscription
44    William Edward Bartlett, FSA, 6 Bath Place, Kensington, W, 29 Jan. 1866 – requests tickets for Thursday meeting; see 169
45    J.W. Batchelor, Odiham, Hants, 2 Feb. 1866 – enquires about publication of Gammon and spinach, i.e. journal of the Anthropological Lecturing Club; see 129
46    Clarence Bate, Plymouth, 17 Aug. 1865 – comments on ethnological interest of Cranstock neighbourhood; discusses his finds there; gives his views on the British Association’s sections, 6 pp.
47    H.W. Bates, Royal Geographical Society, 15 Whitehall Place, SW to JH, 2 Jan. 1866 – regrets unable to attend meeting
48    James B. Baxter, MRCS, Ironbridge Cottage, Brixton – requests copy of Robert Knox’s The race of man, 1850
49    Hugh J.C. Beavan, FRGS, 13 Blandford Square, Regent’s Park, NW, Secretary, ASL (see abbreviations for details) to CCB, nd – notes move for an anthropology section in the forthcoming French exhibition
50    Ibid., nd – notes leader on ASL in the Morning Star
51    Ibid., Oxford Circuit, Gloucester, nd – requests information on Council meeting; mentions local Secretary, Wellington, New Zealand; and British Association meeting; see 191
52    Ibid., Thursday evening – on William Smith Windham
53    Ibid., nd – on payment for dinner; unable to attend Council; on obtaining skeletons from Milcote (Milvercote) for the ASL’s museum
54    Ibid., Saturday evening – laid-up with swollen knee; papers to be sent to his home
55    Ibid., nd – papers signed; to be laid before Council; mentions ‘irrespressible Negro’; and attack on the ASL in the Quarterly Journal of Science
56    Ibid. to JH, [1865] – proof of circular returned; on arrangements for Caithness digging; and possible mention in the circular
57    Ibid. to CCB, Friday – draft agreement; hopes Andaman skulls will arrive soon
58    Ibid., 17 Jan. 1866 – draft letter on remarks on Christian missions and publication in JASL or MASL
59    Ibid. to Charles Buxton, MP, 2 Feb. – copy of letter questioning the authenticity of his resignation; see also 167-70
60    Ibid. to CCB, [25 Mar.] – on Court Circular leader criticising the ASL
61    Assistant Secretary to HJCB, 1 May – increases Horace McKay’s salary from 8s to 9s a week
62    Dr Ludwig Veck, Altenhundem in Westphalia to JH, 28 Jan. 1866 – offering on behalf of Mrs Waitz the first part of the last volume of Theodor Waitz’s Introduction to Anthropology, [vol. 1 published 1863]; enquires about sales
63    John Beddoe (1826-1911) FRS, FRCP, MD, President, Anthropological Society 1869-70, Anthropological Institute 1889-91; author of The races of Britain, 1885; ‘Stature and bulk of man in the British Isles’, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9; ‘The somatology of 800 boys in training for the Royal Navy’, JRAI, vol. 34, 1904, etc. Clifton to CCB, 10 Nov. 1865 – on his paper to be read, if possible, on 5 Dec.; see ‘On the evidence of phenomena in the West of England to the permanence of anthropological types’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xviii-xix
64    Ibid., 3 Dec. – note on enclosure
65    Ibid. to ?JH, 9 Jan. 1866 – doubts advisability of placing the survey’s section on comparative physiology in the hands of a non-Londoner; probably his ‘Stature and bulk of man in the British Isles’, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 384-573
66    Ibid. to CCB, 9 May – paper sent; notes his friend, – Bannerjee, has been admitted; few returns of the hundreds of reports circulated; has permission to use the recruiting returns
67    Ibid., 3 June – accepts invitation to dinner
68    Ibid., 2 Aug. 1866 – mentions CCB’s visit to the Ardennes; does not expect to be in Nottingham but will send paper: ‘On the stature and bulk of the Irish and on the physical degeneration of races’; requests offprints of his 2 papers in the MASL; see ‘On the physical characteristics of the inhabitants of Bretagne’ and ‘On the stature and bulk of man in the British Isles’, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 359-65 and pp. 384-573
69    Ibid., 19 Aug. – sends his Irish paper; investigation on stature in Great Britain progressing well
70    Rev. Dunbar I. Heath, Treasurer, ASL (DIH) (see abbreviations for details) to Edward Bellamy, 12 Apr. 1866 – requests payment of subscription for 1866
71    Edward Bellamy, 10 Duke Street, SW to DIH, [?1 Jan. 1867] – reports AS’s collector called for subscription; has already paid; July receipt held
72    Thomas Bendyshe, (TB) Vice President, 1866, Director, 1869, ASL, King’s College, Cambridge (from the office of The Reader, 24 Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, SW) to [JFC], 19 Feb. 1866 – reports on photographs of Indian tribes (annotated on verso)
73    Ibid. to [JFC], 11 Mar. – books for the ASL ready for collection
74    Ibid. to [JFC], nd – Draper’s book already given; Lecky and others ready for collection; advertisements inserted in ?The Reader (annotated on verso)
75    Editor, The Reader to the Publications Committee, ASL, 14 Apr. – agreement between them on the purchase of The Reader for ASL members and free delivery by The Reader; the latter will advertise free; will also present books to the value of not less than £50; see Circular 13 (A8, Suppl. 2, Item 20)
76Â Â Â Â Draft circular by TB on proposed agreement, 18 Apr.
77    TB to [JFC], 18 Apr. – thinks he left the circular at ASL; asks for number of copies required and position of ‘colonial’ members
78    Ibid., 24 Apr. – on distribution of circulars and costs
79    Ibid., 25 Apr. – cannot print 3000 copies of The Reader and meet other ASL requirements for 2½ d a copy
80    Ibid., 26 Apr. – on production and costs
81    Ibid., 1 June – on presenting the ASL’s publications to J.F. Robertson
82    Note for Publications Committee’s resolutions on printing names and addresses of members, nd
83    TB to [JFC], 7 June – on cancellation of agreement to be considered by Council (annotated N.I agreed to)
84    Ibid., 7 June – states agreement is loss making for The Reader; no objection to ASL ending it and paying sum owing (annotated, No. 2 not considered)
85    Ibid., 8 June – notes Council’s wish to discontinue agreement; comments on Council’s vacillation and misrepresentation of his personal advantage; resigns as Vice President
86    Ibid. to CCB, 15 June – requests lists of institutions receiving ASL’s publications (annotated)
87    Ibid., 19 June 1866 – encloses letter to be laid before Council on John Stirling’s election
88    S. Bennett, Park Mills, Stockport to RSC, 12 Feb. 1866 – encloses subscription for W.R. Barr of the same address
89    Thomas John Wesley Bennett, 39 Moorgate Street, EC to HJCB, 23 Feb. – acknowledges election to Fellowship; encloses subscription
90    W.F.G. Benson, South Road, Waterloo, near Liverpool to JFC, 16 July 1866 – encloses subscription
91    George Bertram, Millwright & Engineer, Sciennes Street, Edinburgh to DIH, 14 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
92    Sidney Biddell, Farm Hill House, Stroud, Glos. to ASL, nd – requests conditions of membership
93    Henry F. Bingham, Wartnaby Hall, near Mowbray to ASL, 6 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
94    Ibid., 13 Aug. – intends to be present at the session on the 22nd; cannot contribute a paper on the Genus Homo
95    ‘Bitter Beer’, Seaforth House, Friern Park, near Whetstone to CCB, 7 May 1866 – sends ?paper on monogeny and polygeny
96    W.J. Black, 2 George Square, Edinburgh to JFC, June 1866 – offers paper on the natural status of the white and coloured races of South Africa
97    CCB to ?JH, 31 Jan. 1865 – on remains presented by J. Hutchinson; see ‘On some human remains from Cowley, near Cheltenham’, JASL, 1865, vol. 3, p. cxlvi
98    Ibid. to Council, 5 Dec. – reports William Bollaert’s statement that Commander Morrison, up for election as a Fellow, was rejected at the Council ballot of 18 Oct. 1865; Capt. R.J. Morrison, RN was elected in 1867
99    Ibid. to George F. Rolph, War Office, Pall Mall, SW, 22 Feb. 1866 – regrets, on behalf of the Publications Committee, no part of his translation of Broca’s Instructions générale has been received (copy); see also 104-24
100    Ibid. to Charles Buxton, MP, 23 Feb. – Council unclear from his letter if he intends to resign; expresses the hope that he will remain a Fellow (copy); see also 167-70
101    Ibid., ? [Mar.] – acknowledges resignation and Council’s acceptance; had assumed his first letter was a forgery; assumed he would know the ASL is governed by a Council; hopes his view of ASL does not represent those of ‘men of science’ (rough draft)
102    Ibid. to Council, 5 Mar. – reports donation to the Library by S. Edwin Collingwood of George Catlin, Letters and notes on the manners, customs, and conditions of the North American Indians, 2 vols, 1841, John Campbell, Negro-mania, and other valuable books
103    Ibid., 5 Mar. – reports Capt. A.C. Tupper, Vice President, Royal United Service Institution expresses strong wish that no duplicate Fan spears presented by Mr Walker should be deposited with the Museum of the RUSI; reports earlier presentation of the Stonehenge model and two Tasmanian busts
104    CCB and the Publications Committee, 18 Apr. 1865 – Publications Committee resolved George Frederick Rolph (GFR), Member of Council, 1866 should be asked to translate Paul Broca, Instructions générales pour l’anthropologie and F. Pruner Bey, Questions relatives à l’anthropologie générale’ request accepted; see also 99
105    Ibid., 2 May – letter from Broca giving cost of printing ‘chromatic colours’
106    Ibid., 21 June – CCB requested to inquire when GFR’s translation will be ready
107    Ibid., 20 July – reports that the Anthropological Society of Moscow has published a translation into Russian; the Madrid Society has applied for permission to translate
108    Ibid., 2 Aug. – reports GFR hopes to complete translation by the end of September
109    Ibid., 18 Oct. – reports GFR prevented by illness from completing translation; CCB asked to inquire when it will be completed
110    Ibid., 1 Nov. – reports no reply received from GFR
111    Ibid. and Council, 1 Nov. – reports GFR hopes to submit his translation by the 15 Dec.
112    Ibid. and Publications Committee, 14 Nov. – no official reply received from GFR; requested to inquire again as to completion of translation
113    GFR to Publications Committee, 5 Dec. – hopes to complete translation during present month (copy)
114    Publications Committee to Council, 5 Dec. – reports GFR should be requested to send the portion of translation already completed
115Â Â Â Â Ibid., 4 Jan. 1866 – reports GFR forwarded a portion of his translation; suggestions made by Publications Committee members
116    CCB and Publications Committee, 16 Jan. – instructed to write to GFR concerning his translation
117    Ibid., 1 Feb. – reports GFR has failed to send further portions
118    Ibid., 6 Feb. – matter to be raised at next Publications Committee
119    Ibid., 20 Mar. – GFR to be asked when the translation will be sent, and to send portion already completed
120    Ibid., 17 Apr. – reports no reply received from GFR
121    Ibid., 1 May – reports some of the translation now received
122    Council to Publications Committee, 1 May – matter referred to Publications Committee; instructed to consider it on 5 June
123    CCB to Publications Committee, 17 May – reports instructed to go through the translation with GFR; failed to either go over the translation or to arrange a meeting; translation frequently announced as in preparation; requests for it received; Committee of General Instructions unable to meet for lack of manuscript; Secretary of Committee frequently applied to CCB; strong dissatisfaction felt. 3 leaves
124    Ibid., 7 June – notes report on translation; it was not published
125    John H. Blount, Bagshot to CCB, 3 Feb. 1866 – encloses subscription; leaving for Assam; asks for information on it; offers books to the Library
126    Ibid., 7 York Terrace, St John’s Wood, 19 Mar. – sends address for his publications
127    E.B. Bogg, Louth, Lincolnshire to CCB, 14 Aug. 1866 – pleased to prepare a paper on the Indian tribes; see ‘The fishing Indians of Vancouver’s Island’, MASL, vol. 1867/9, pp. 260-6
128    Ibid., 19 Aug. – encloses paper; his brother will bring Indian ‘curiosities’ which he has collected; see 127
129    William Bollaert, Hon. Secretary, ASL to the Editor, Pall Mall Gazette, 2 Nov. 1865 – disclaims any connection between the ASL and the Anthropological Lecturing Club and its journal, Gammon and Spinach (copy); letter also sent to The Times, 4 Nov. 1865
130    Ibid. to CCB, nd – papers referring to Publications Committee
131    Ibid., nd – inquires about correcting proofs of his paper
132    Errata for Bollaert’s paper ‘Maya hieroglyphic alphabet of Yucatan’, MASL, vol. 2, 1865/6, pp. 46-54 (postage stamp on verso), [16 Feb. 1866]
133    A.M. ?Lucy Bond, 8 Ely Place, Dublin to CCB, 8 May [1866] – note forwarded from The Argory, Moy, Ireland; brother, ?Walter M. Bond, returned The Reader; unable to attend British Association meeting at Nottingham
134    Rev. T.G. Bonney, St John’s College, Cambridge to ASL, 2 Mar. 1866 – encloses subscription
135    James Bonwick (1817-1906), author of The Aborigines of Australia and their original condition, 1865; The last of the Tasmanians, 1870, and Daily life and origins of the Tasmanians, 1870, St Kilda, Melbourne to JH, 25 Sep. 1865 – reports on the ‘slaughter, as it were, by authority’ of the Queensland Aborigines; has forwarded a pamphlet by Gideon Lang exposing the ‘wrongs of our Aborigines’; urges attention should be given to the matter by the ASL; see also JASL, vol. 4, 1866, p. iv for publication of letter
136    Charles Booth, 22 Bank Street, Sheffield, 15 Mar. 1866 – encloses subscription
137    W.W. Boreham, Haverhill, Suffolk, 21 Apr. 1866 – ibid.
138    Cunningham Borthwick, 17 Queen Street, Mayfair, W., 18 Apr. [?1866] – ibid.
139    John Bower, DCL (Oxon), Barrister-at-Law, Beaumares to ASL, 11 Aug. 1866 – encloses corrected proof of his paper; see ‘The history of ancient slavery’, MASL, vol. 2, 1865/6, pp. 380-401
140    Thomas W. Bowman, MA, Ph.D., MCP, Vice-Principal and Classical Tutor, Gainford School, Darlington to ASL, 13 June 1866 – inquires about membership
141    Ibid., 18 June – requests further information
142    H.W.I. Boyce, Waangford? to ASL, 23 June 1866 – inquires about membership
143    Jacob Boys, 59 Grand Parade, Brighton to ASL, 16 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
144    (Sir) Edward W. Brabrook, Hon. Secretary 1871-5, Director 1871-80, President 1895-7, Barrister-at-Law, 8a Waterloo Place, SW to CCB, 22 Jan. 1866 – will call to see the Kirkhead
145    Ibid., 22 Mar. – recommends J.P. Morris’s paper for the JASL, rather than the MASL; see ‘Report of explorations conducted in the Kirkhead cave at Ulverstone’, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cci-cciii (abstract); and MASL, vol. 2, 1865/6, pp. 358-63
146    DIH to Antonia Brady, Maryland Point, Stratford, Essex – requests subscription
147    C. Brainsford, MD, Haverhill, Suffolk to ASL, 9 Mar. 1866 – resigns from the ASL having witnessed ‘the late melancholy transactions in Jamaica’, i.e. rebellion at Morant Bay in Oct. 1865 and its violent suppression; the outcry led to the recall of the Governor
148    Ibid., 16 Apr. – repeats wish to resign
149    James Brebner, MA, Advocate, 1 St Albyn Place, Aberdeen to RSC, 7 Feb. 1866 – encloses subscription
150    W.H. Broadhead, Barclay Street, Sheepscar, Leeds to ASL, nd – requests details of membership
151    Paul Broca, Sécrétaire general, Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 3 rue de l’Abbaye, Paris, Hon. Fellow ASL to ?JH, 29 June 1866 – on Prof. D’Omalius d’Halloy of Brussels, Corresponding Member of ASL; Edouard Dupont and Van Benedon; gives warm invitation to Paris
152    David Brodie, MD, LRCSE, Scottish Institution for the Education of Imbecile Children, Larbert, Stirlingshire to [CCB], 7 June [1866] – requests details of membership
153    Henry Brookes, 26 Great Winchester Street, EC to DIH, 5 May 1866 – encloses cheque; ASL’s failure to inform William Brookes, Bank Buildings, Newcastle, New South Wales, and W.M. Keene, Geologist and Inspector of Coal-fields, Bank Buildings, Newcastle, New South Wales, both in Australia of their election as Fellows
154    Edwin Brown, FGS, Hon. Secretary, Midland Natural History Society, Burton-on-Trent to JFC, 25 Dec. 1865 – reports non-receipt of packet
155    Ibid., 13 Feb. 1866 – reports receipt of packet; encloses cheque
156    E.O. Brown, Chemical Dept., Royal Arsenal, Woolwich to RSC, 23 Feb. 1866 – encloses subscription
157    James Robert Brown, FRGS, 5 Langham Chambers, Langham Place, W to CCB, 13 Apr. 1866 – reports arrival of parcel but damaged; invites CCB to call one evening
158    Ibid. to DIH, 24 Apr. – encloses subscription
159    John Allen Brown, FRGS, The Laurels, The Haven, Ealing to CCB, [2 Apr.] 1866 – notes change of address
160    Ibid., 15 May – encloses subscription; ASL still using old address
161    Edward Browne, Oak Hill, Surbiton Hill to William Bollaert, Council Member, ASL, 28 Oct. 1865 – resigns from ASL
162    D. Cunninghame Brodring, Earls-ferry, Elie to DIH, 26 Apr. 1866 – reports Dr Robert Thinn is in China
163    Ibid., 30 Apr. – requests that Dr Thinn’s mail should be addressed to Shanghai
164    Prof. G.W. Busk, 15 Harley Street, W to CCB, 27 Mar. 1866 – regrets inability to see skulls from the Thames
165    Ibid., 26 July – acknowledges box from Paris; regrets delay in sending paper
166    Henry Butler, Admiralty, Somerset House to ASL, 31 Jan. 1866 – requests ticket for meeting on 1 Feb.; see 169
167    Charles Buxton, MP, 7 Grosvenor Crescent, SW to Council, 29 Jan. 1866 – resigns from ASL (signature only in sender’s hand); (see Council minutes, 1 Feb. 1866, f. 169, A3:1)
168    Ibid., 5 Feb. – confirms resignation; ‘among scientific men it is spoken of with general ridicule’ (ibid.)
169    Ibid., 6 Feb. – wishes to withdraw last two letters in view of their tone; expresses his ‘very deep indignation … [at] the evident attacks made by Captain Pim [Capt. Bedford Pim, RN, member of Council] and others on the character of the Negro … cannot discover anything to prevent their race from advancing’, wishes resignation to stand; see ‘The Negro and Jamaica’, Popular magazine of anthropology, Special Number, 1866; and reference to it, JASL, vol. 4, 1866, p. lxxxix. The lecture was given on 1 February at St James’s Hall, Piccadilly (Circular No. 10, A8, Suppl. 2, Item 15)
170    Ibid. to Hugh J.C. Beavan, member of Council 1864, 26 Feb. – after the delivery and publication of Capt. Pim’s lecture does not wish to be associated with the ASL (signature only in sender’s hand)
171    J. Byerley, Seacombe, Cheshire to DIH, 14 July 1866 – encloses subscription with apologies for delay
172    Cambridge University Press (C.J. Clay) to CCB, 16 Nov. 1865 – inquires as to settlement of account (annotated); cheque for £25 to C.J. Clay for Blumenbach’s The Anthropological treatises (see Council minutes, 5 Dec. 1865, A3:1)
173    Ibid., 22 Jan. 1866 – ibid. (annotated)
174    Ibid. to JFC, 9 Mar. – failing a satisfactory answer from Council, payment will be enforced
175    Ibid. to CCB, 12 Apr. – inquires as to payment of balance
176    Ibid. to JFC, 14 Apr. – trusts balance will be paid immediately
177    Ibid., 3 May – acknowledges cheque for £25; balance of £50 desired as soon as possible (1d Inland Revenue stamp attached)
178    Ibid., 8 May – balance of £25 due; £50 mentioned an error
179    Henry Campbell, Walkinshaw, Paisley to ASL, 26 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
180    Dr D.F. Caplin, Electro-Chemical Bath and Galvano-Therapeutic Establishment, 9 York Place, Portman Square, W to CCB, 22 Jan. 1866 – encloses draft of article; requests his opinion (annotated by CCB)(signature only in sender’s hand); the article does not appear to have been published
181    Ibid., 31 Jan. – requests ticket for lecture at St James’s Hall, Piccadilly; see 169
182    Ibid., 16 Apr. – encloses subscription; suggests annual reminders should be sent to Fellows
183    Samuel Cartwright, 32 Old Burlington Street, W to DIH, 14 Apr. [1866] – encloses subscription
184    George Catlin (1796-1872) Brussels, to Trübner & Co, London, 11 May 1866 – on the publication of his Life among the Indians, 1867, the copyright; cost of 23 designs
185    John Cavafy, MB, MRCP, 26 Pembridge Gardens, Bayswater, W to DIH, 14 Apr. 1866 – request for subscription received; has paid a life subscription
186    William Chamberlin, 4 Mervey Terrace, Brighton to ASL, 29 Jan. 1866 – requests ticket for lecture at St James’s Hall, Piccadilly; Circular 10, invitation to the lecture attached; see 169
187    Charles Harcourt Chambers, 4 Devonshire Buildings, Weymouth, formerly of 2 Chesham Place, SW to DIH, 21 May 1866 – encloses subscription
188    Ibid., 9 June – reports 135 copies of his translation, Lake habitations and pre-historic remains in the turbaries and marl-beds of northern and central Italy by Bartolomeo Gastaldi have been sold; considers the ASL should refund his £20 advance; income of ASL must be considerable; wishes to know cost of printing (annotated by DIH)
189    Ibid., 14 June – has no wish to ‘go back from my bargain’; considers £40 spent on advertising ‘disproportionate to the expense of printing’; ASL has ‘done so much more than they could afford’ (annotated by DIH)
190    unsigned, 2 Chesham Place, [Edinburgh] to ASL, 9 July – incorrectly addressed letter to C.H. Chambers returned
191    Charles Harcourt Chambers, Mundesley, North Walsham, Norfolk to ASL, 13 Aug. – £5 balance due on Gastaldi enclosed; considers he ‘was responsible only for the extra expense of the engravings’, i.e. £20; also considers ‘a publishing society’ should bear a considerable portion, if not all, the publication and advertising costs; pleased to hear the British Association ‘has come to its senses’; see A8, Suppl. 2, Items 5: ‘A letter … to … the British Association on the desirability of … a special section for anthropology’; 6: ‘Anthropological Congress, The Queen’s College, [Birmingham]’; 9: ‘Anthropology at the British Association’ on ‘non-recognition’; 12: Circular No. 7, Special: urging Fellows to attend the next meeting in Birmingham, 1865 and to use their influence to procure ‘recognition’; 23: Circular No. 16: on appointment of deputation to attend the Nottingham meeting, 1866, to support claims for ‘recognition’; locus standi likely to be granted
192    Ibid., 15 Aug. – ASL misunderstands him; considers ‘a publishing Society should not look to profit at all’ but should be ‘part of their yearly expenditure; informed the Gastaldi ‘has had a larger sale than such books generally have’; ‘my quarrel is with the customs of the Society’
193    James Champley, Hon. MD, 8 Albion Place, Scarborough to Hon. Secretary, ASL, 7 Mar. 1866 – inquires about membership
194    Ibid., 29 Mar. – wishes to become a Fellow ‘provided the subscription is no more than £2.2.0’; assumes ASL is a scientific not a medical society, is not ‘an English registered practitioner’ (annotated)
195    Ibid., 6 Apr. – requests copy of On the phenomena of hybridity in the genus homo by Paul Broca; hopes he may use the ASL’s initials as a Fellow
196    Ibid. to DIH, 19 Apr. – encloses subscription and ‘5/- for one of Mr C. Blake’s Books’
197    Ibid. to CCB, 18 Aug. – unable to attend meeting on 22nd; wishes ASL success then and in the future. ?Nottingham meeting of the British Association
198    Rev. David Charles, MA, FGHS, Abercarn, Newport, Monmouth to DIH, 31 May 1866 – encloses subscription
199    J. Charlton, Geological Society, Somerset House to JFC, 15 Jan. 1866 – prevented from calling to estimate for shelves; will call when convenient
200    Richard Stephen Charnock, 8 Gray’s Inn Square, WC (currently Treasurer, ASL, see abbreviations for details) to CCB, 21 Nov. 1865 – acknowledges ‘the Revise’; see ‘Cannibalism in Europe’, JAS, vol. 4, 1866, pp. xxii-xxxi, read by CCB
201    Ibid., 4 Dec. – ‘proposition accepted’; importance of avoiding error; notes sums in hand and balance; unable to attend Council; suggest CCB should read the paper; see 200; will call every Friday to receive moneys; will not be responsible until they are handed over
202    Ibid., nd – marked: ‘Priv. and Conference.’; advises CCB not to postpone reading of his paper; see 200
203    Ibid., nd – unable to instruct the printer to bind 150 copies of the book; cannot describe the material or colour of the ASL publications; requests a copy of the latter, his clerk will take it to the printer; mentions ‘poor [James] Reddie’
204    Ibid. – quotes confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel; see Genesis, chapter 11 verse 9
205    Ibid., nd – requests ledger and ‘bank book’; refers to payment of cheques
206    F.W. Chesson, 3 Catherine Terrace, Lansdowne Road, S to CCB, 16 Dec. 1865 – acknowledges Laing’s pamphlet; contains facts to be placed before the government; conveys thanks of the Aborigines Protection Society to Laing for his services to the ‘cause of truth and humanity’
207    Robert Caesar Childers, Woodleigh, Southborough, Tunbridge Wells to ASL, 16 Feb. 1866 – sends permanent address
208    Ibid., 21 Apr. – encloses subscription
209    Rev. Henry Clare, Clevedon, Somerset to ASL, 14 Dec. 1865 – regrets he has to resign from ASL
210    Lieut. Henry Wilberforce Clarke, RE, Adelaide House, Malvern to HJCB, 24 Mar. [?1866] – encloses subscription
211    Hyde Clarke, KCM, KHS, KC, LL.D, Smyrna, Asia Minor, Council member 1871-6, Vice President 1877-80, 1882-7, 1889-91, 20 May 1865 – encloses photograph; refers to monument near Nymphaecum (now Nimfi); discusses doubts as to classification; photograph by Alexander Svoboda will allow matter to be examined more fully; monument should be classed as Assyrian not Egyptian
212    Ibid. to ASL, 28 Apr. 1866 – has obtained photographs of the Nîobe, near Magnesia and Sipylum despite cholera and bad weather; discusses his terminology; and Herodotus’s Egypt theory; increasing amount of material available; mentions references in Strabo and Pausanias
213    John Cleghorn, Wick to [JFC], 24 May 1866 – requests a few copies of his paper on the shell mounds; see ‘A new reading of the shell mounds and graves in Caithness’, JAS, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxxix-cl
214    Ibid., 17 Aug. – requests a copy of the current Anthrop.Rev. (annotated)
215    William James Clement, MP, The Council House, Shrewsbury to DIH, 14 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
216    Colonel H. Clerk, RA, Royal Arsenal to DIH, 14 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
217    M.I. Clifford, Hospital of St John & St Elizabeth, 47 Great Ormond Street, WC to CCB, Friday [Jan. 1866] – asks for Pim’s ‘The Negro at home and abroad’ to be sent to a friend
218    F. Spencer Cobbold, 84 Wimpole Street, W to JFC, 2 Mar. [?1866] – acknowledges admission ticket; exhibiting at the Pathological Society that evening
219    J. Frederick Collingwood, Assistant Secretary, ASL, 4 St Martin’s Place, WC (see abbreviations for details), [1866] – draft letter drawing attention to the advantages of ASL membership; see A8, Suppl. 2, Item 17
220    Ibid., [1866] – draft letter drawing attention to the Presidential Address; growing importance and interest in the subject; invitation to join the ASL
221    Ibid. to [Council], 1 Feb. 1866 – on ways of increasing membership; ‘prepared list of 8000 names of gentlemen who we consider may be likely to join’; suggests enclosed letter (220 above) should be addressed to each; signed J. Fred. Collingwood, Asst. Sec., C. Carter Blake, Curator & Librarian (annotated)
222    Ibid. to President and Council, 6 Feb. – reports on efforts to obtain book cases with limit of £10; suggests estimate of £9 should be accepted
223    Ibid. to John Grattan, FASL Belfast, 17 Feb. 1866 – acknowledges receipt of letter, plates and description of his craniometry system; his gift to the Library; and offer to read a paper; pleased to accept paper for submission to Council and referees (draft reply)
224    Ibid. to W.O. Stoton, 8 St Martin’s Place, WC, 12 June – acknowledges letter of complaint; Council prepared for a window blind to hide the skeleton in the ASL’s Museum at his expense (draft reply)
225    Ibid. to CCB, Sunday night – in bed due to sickness; encloses key to his drawer in case he cannot attend
226    J.W. Collings, 4 Lansdowne Road, Hampton Wick to CCB, 1 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription; comments favourably on Pim’s ‘The Negro at home and abroad’; see 169
227    – Collins, 15 Buckingham Street to ASL, 26 Apr. 1866 – requests information
228    John Collinson, 9 Clarendon Gardens, Maida Hill to JFC, 14 Aug. 1866 – encloses paper on the Mosquito Woolwa and Rama Indians; see ‘The Indians of the Mosquito Territory’, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 148-56
229    Arundel(?) Copham, Mill House, near Bristol to Geo. A. ?Britton, 13 Feb. 1866 – on his subscription (annotated)
230    W. Fothergill Cooke, [4 Cavendish Road, Leeds] to DIH, 20 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
231    Ibid. to JFC, 24 Apr. – apologises for trouble he has given
232    W. Cory, Devonshire Place House, NW to ASL, nd – notifies change of address
233    F.L. Cotton, Jeula, Cotton & Co, 20 Change Alley, Cornhill, EC to JFC, 22 May 1866 – papers to be sent to this address
234    Samuel Courtauld, 53 Portland Place, Marylebone, 16 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
235    Ibid., Gosfield Hall, Halstead, Essex to CCB and JFC, 12 Aug. – acknowledges Circular 16; glad to learn that the British Association is to grant anthropology locus standi; will be present at the opening meeting in Nottingham; see 191
236    J.W. Conrad Cox, Council member, ASL, Lloyds, EC to CCB, 22 Feb. 1866 – acknowledges Swinburne’s letter and cheque; asks CCB to acknowledge them
237    Ibid., 22 Mar. – encloses proposal ‘of a very good man’; likely to come to meetings and bring members; wishes back numbers of Anthrop.Rev.
238    Ibid., 24 Mar. – asks for Da Costa, Da existencia do homen em ephocas remotas no valle do Tejo by F.A. Pereira da Costa and any free pamphlets to be sent to ?Parker Rhodes; will pay on his election (attached to 239)
239    Ibid., 20 Apr. – returns proof; requests Reference paper; Parker Rhodes’ first was burnt; wishes to know subjects for Geological meeting
240    Ibid., 4 Grove Hill, Woodford to JFC, 23 June – Cannibal bill [dining club] found; wishes to know who dines; illness in the family and unlikely to be in the West End at present; list of Cannibals dining on 19 June
241    Ibid., Lloyds to CCB, 23 June – son ill; unable to see CCB this afternoon
242    Ibid. to JFC, 3 July – acknowledges request for money; regrets he cannot respond; encloses James Bischhoff’s cheque; will forward ?William Robinson’s when received; has been poorly owing to son’s illness and disturbed nights
243    Ibid., 7 July – suggests money should be due from Longmans, Green and Trübner from sales; hopes to see him on Saturday
244    Ibid. to CCB, 26 July – glad his efforts ‘have added to the evidence in favour of religion’; encloses memo on Cannibal account; ? Robinson has paid £5 for Exploration Fund; asks for receipt to be sent; list of moneys received for dining club; A8, Suppl. 2, Items 21-2: Circular No. 14 announces Anthropological Exploration Fund to carry out original research mainly in the British Islands; 22: Circular No. 15: further report including Belgium invitation to take part in Dinant Explorations
245    Ibid., 4 Grove Hill, Woodford, 30 July – cannot attend Council; money to be paid into Exploration Fund; last Cannibal Club bill enclosed; asks him to obtain some of the money due; very busy and unwell but will see him this week
246    Henry Valentine Crassweller, 54 Hungerford Road, Camden Road, N to CCB, 4 May 1866 – encloses subscription; reports Anthrop.Rev. not received; notifies change of address
247    Arthur E. Craster, Wimbledon to DIH, 14 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
248    Capt. Fred. W. Crawfurd, RN, 41 Claverton Street, Pimlico to ASL, 16 Apr. 1866 – apologises for delay in replying to invitation to join the ASL; would be glad to receive further information
249    Ibid., 14 May – encloses subscription
250    S.F. Cresswell, Royal Grammar School, Lancaster to CCB, 30 Apr. 1866 – thanks CCB for using his influence in SFC’s application for the 2nd Mastership of the Mercers Chapel Grammar School, Cannon Street; mentions his friend, Rev. W. Greenwood ‘the craniologist and British barrow digger’
251    J.W. Crevey?, 66th Regiment, Aldershot to DIH, 11 May – encloses subscription
252    J. ? Crisp, 141 Marylebone Road, NW to DIH, nd – admission card not received; unable to attend first meeting (annotated)
253    H. Dyer Cuming, 63 Kensington Park Road to JH, 26 Jan. 1866 – expresses enthusiasm for joint occupancy of a house for meetings of the two societies; his Council considers it desirable that several scientific societies should combine (annotated)
The following were filed with C:
254    signature illegible, 69th Regiment, Aldershot to ASL, 12 Feb. 1866 – encloses subscription
255    Ibid., Mountfort House, Barnsbury Square, N to Thomas Bendyshe (see 72 for details), 18 June 1866 – will introduce a new member if the ASL will send a complete set of its publications
256    unsigned, Southwell Cottage, Kingswood, Bristol to JFC, 24 July 1866 – asks if the referee has made a decision on his manuscript; wishes to read a chapter on geography and ethnology at Nottingham, i.e. British Association meeting
257    Dr J.G. Davey, Northwoods, Bristol to ASL, 14 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription
258    William Davies, British Museum to CCB, 4 June 1866 – reports on bone fragments
259    Charles W. Davis, Queens Park, Manchester to DIH, 1 July 1866 – encloses subscription
260    Edmund F. Davis, 6 Cork Street, W to William Bollaert, Member of ASL Council, 3 Apr. 1866 – encloses subscription; requests further details
261    Frederick E. Davis, 53 Leicester Square, W to HJCB, 21 Jan. 1866 – encloses subscription
262    Dr Joseph Barnard Davis, FRS, FSA, MRCS, Vice President ASL 1869, Council member AI 1872, 1874-9, Shelton, Staffordshire to JH, 28 Jan. 1866 – acknowledges proposal that his Thesaurus craniorum should be published ‘in connection’ with the ASL; should not be pursued if not beneficial to the ASL; British Association vote was for the preparation of the catalogue not publication; has had heavy expenses; has to print the book himself; suggests employing the ASL’s printer; could then supply copies to the ASL at a reduced price; hopes the ASL will actively support the Jamaican rebellion (see 147)
263    Ibid. to HJCB, 4 Feb. – acknowledges report of Council’s decision; will be glad to hear if the ASL requires copies at a discount; large printing required to achieve this; 100 subscriptions already received
264    Ibid., 27 Mar. – acknowledges Fellows’ List with names marked; has sent prospectuses to most of them; 136 subscriptions received; wishes to propose his friend, Dr T.A. Wise as a Fellow; has papers to send to the Moscow Society; and his report on ‘Dutch anthropology’ by Prof. Antonio Garliglietti; wishes to borrow some wood-cuts
265    Ibid., 8 Apr. – acknowledges ‘friendly criticism [and] many other favours’; pleased ASL thinks his reply to Prof. Huxley’s criticism is satisfactory; fears his criticism of [John] Thurnam ‘might be inferred to be severe; which I should regret much’; sees his point in reading a reply before the ASL; ‘would render it too conspicuous’; prefers to arrange for a few offprints; will send one to JH for comment in Anthrop.Rev.; ‘much in the dark respecting Huxley’s writing on our subject’; comments on unsigned article on J.S. Mill, ‘Race in legislation and political economy’ in Anthrop.Rev. vol. 4, 1866, pp. 113-35; and on Prichard’s remarks on ‘Your Writer’ and his information on the hair of ‘Oceanic Negroes’; Moscow Society parcel sent
266    Ibid., 6 May 1866 – assumes Andaman Islanders’ skeletons received; expecting skulls of Khouds; asks JH to write his name etc. on his photograph; will be placed in a collection of craniologists, anthropologists etc.; doubts authenticity of Robins’s drawings; wishes to obtain photograph of ‘extraordinary Hottentot’; has heard that an ‘Ainos’ skull was purchasable; inquiries about photograph of Vancouver Island tribes; see ‘A few remarks on the Bunu tribe of Central Africa’ by T. Valentine Robins, JAS, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cx-cxiv; ‘Description of the skeleton of an Aïno woman, and of three skulls of men of the same race’ by Joseph Barnard Davis, MAS, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 21-40
267    Ibid., 10 Dec. – asks him to forward ‘box with 3 skulls’; asks him to wire when he plans to visit Skelton
268Â Â Â Â Advertisement for Thesaurus craniorum (annotated)
269    Thurston Davis, 4 Highbury Park West, Highbury Hill, N to ASL, 31 Jan. 1866 – requests ticket for Pim’s paper at St James’s Hall; see 169
270    Henry Denney, Philosophical & Literary Society, Leeds to CCB, 15 May 1866 – reports non-arrival of Anthrop.Rev. vols. 9-10
271    George Dibley, King Henry’s Road, Adelaide Road, NW to CCB, 27 Jan. 1866 – regrets inability to attend Pim’s lecture; compliments ASL on arranging the lecture; see 169
272    – Donald, St James’s Hall Restaurant, Regent Street, W to JH, 19 Dec. 1865 – reservation made for ASL dinner
273    Dr J. Langdon H. Down, Prof. of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, London Hospital Medical College, Eastwood Asylum, Red Hill, Surrey; member of ASL Council 1869 to DIH, 29 Jan. 1866 – requests ticket for meeting
274    Ibid., 18 Apr. – encloses subscription
275    – Downer, 10 Berners Street, Oxford Street, W to ASL, nd – requests conditions of membership
276    R.E. Dudgon, MD, FZS, 53 Montagu Square, W to CCB, 29 Jan. 1866 – requests ticket for Pim’s lecture; see 169
277    J.R. Duggan, Mercantile Stationer and Printer, 42 Watling Street, EC to CCB, 7 Aug. 1866 – invites orders for stationery
278    Edouard Dupont, Dinant; Directeur du Musée, Brussels; Corresponding Member, ASL to CCB, 6 July 1866 – will be pleased to see him; see ‘Report on the researches of Dr Edouard Dupont in the Belgian bone-caves on the banks of the river Lesse’ by C. Carter Blake, MASL, vol. 3, 1867/9, pp. 315-50; see also 244
279    Geologists Association, King’s College, London to CCB, 27 June 1866 – will advertise his lecture on ‘Bone caves’; see 278
280    Charles Harding, FRGS, FRSL; European Bank, 83 King to ASL, 23 Dec. 1865 – requesting Harding’s address (annotated)
281    George Harris, Cornbrook Park, Hulme, Manchester, to CCB, 4 June 1866 – on the establishment of a Manchester anthropological society; wishes to read paper to Council; hopes to meet the President of the Cheetham Literary, Philosophical and Statistical Society; hopes CCB will come to dine also; invites him to stay; see ‘Regulations for the formation of branch societies’, JAS, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cciv-ccv; ‘Report on the first meeting of the Manchester branch of the Anthropological Society of London’ by Dunbar I. Heath, JAS, vol. 5, 1867, pp. ix-x; and ‘The Manchester Anthropological Society’, Anthrop.Rev., vol. 5, 1867, pp. 1-27
282    Ibid., 8 June – hopes to arrange dinner when CCB is free to come; and to spend a few days with him; expects to establish an influential and important society despite prejudices; disappointed at Council’s rejection of his paper; hopes it will reconsider
283    H. Willan Jackson; Edward C. Anderson, Thetford, Norfolk to RSC, 16 Nov. 1865, notifying Jackson’s address as 2 Montague Street, Edinburgh
284    Edouard Lartêt, President, Société d’Anthropologie, Paris; Hon. Fellow, ASL, 15 rue Lacépéde, Paris to CCB, 18 Aug. 1866 – parcel sent and manuscript
285    Longmans, Green & Co, 39 Paternoster Row, EC to CCB, 7 Dec. 1865 – revised account enclosed
286    S. Phillips Day, County Hotel, Carlisle to CCB, 1 Jan. 1866 – regrets failure to attend meeting; reports moving to London; author of Down south: a narrative of the American war
287    F. Pruner-Bey, Hon. Fellow, ASL, 23 Place de St Victor, Paris to ASL, 29 June 1866 – acknowledges pleasure at the honour; offers to help with the Belgium ‘cave-business’; will discuss matter with Dupont; discoveries in Belgium, France, and Italy will require a revaluation of English craniology; see 278
288    Ibid., 30 July – acknowledges work on simious skulls; and receipt of craniometer; comments on the Memoir; refers to Schaaffenhausen and J.B. Davis’s views on the sutures of Celtic skulls; see ‘Certain simious skulls, with special reference to a skull from Louth, in Ireland’ by C. Carter Blake, JAS, vol. 4, 1866, pp. cxxvi-cxxvii, and MAS, vol. 2, 1865/6, pp. 74-81
289    Charles W. Shaw, East Beach, Queenstown, Ireland to ASL, 23 June 1866 – requests a copy of the rules
290    Dr Mackenzie Skues, Somerset; Surgeon H.M. 109th Regiment, Aden to ASL, 23 July 1866 – looking after a friend’s practice; unable to send a paper; may not have an opportunity for some years unless he can get away in time; see reference to his account ‘of two large rolls of Hebrew manuscript’, JAS, vol. 4, 1866, p. clxxi
