ABSTRACT
The Chairman stated that the business before the Meeting was to establish an Anthropological Society in Bombay. It was not intended to be a merely local Society, but one that should embrace the whole of the Indian Empire. No institution whose labours were specially devoted to Anthropology had hitherto been established in India, although daily experience showed the pressing need for it. It was, in his opinion, a matter of grave reproach to both Natives and Europeans in that country that so little had been done in the way of investigating and recording anthropological facts. There was, probably, no country in the world which offered so interesting a field for anthropological research. 1 , 2
