The Colonial Intelligencer

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ... Missionary Society, Bloomfield Street, as well as in many provincial Museums. These should be regarded, not as mere objects of idle curiosity, put in to fill up a space which might otherwise be vacant, but as affording a means of judging of the mental capacity of the native races, and as proving, when taken collectively, how large and important a class these people form among the world's inhabitants, and what a blank in the history of the human race their extermination would cause. NOTICES, THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Aborigines' ProTection Society will be held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate Street, on Monday Evening the 22d of March instant. SIR E. N. BUXTON, Bart., M.P., in the Chair. The proceedings will commence at half-past Seven o'clock. Subscribers are hereby respectfully informed that their Subscriptions for the year 1852 fell due on the 1st of January last. LIST OF THE COMMITTEE FOR THE PRESENT YEAR, AND OF THE OFFICERS. t, SAMUEL GURNEY, Esa. DIMSDALE, DREWETT, & FOWLER, 50, Cornhill. JAMES BELL, Esa., 1, Devonshire Place, Portland Place. ALLPORT, D. H. Esa. I HODGKIN, THOMAS, Esa., M.T). HINDLEY, CHAS. Esa., M.P. ecrctars, DR. HODGKIN, 35, Bedford Square. L A CHAMEROVZOW, 4, Leipsic Road, Camberwell. r, MR. GEORGE STANCLIFF, 35, Bedford Square. Information respecting the Aborigines is earnestly solicited. Communications to be addressed to the Secretaries. W. M. Watts, Crown Court, Temple Bar. ANNUAL REPORT OP THE ABORIGINES' PROTECTION SOCIETY. THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY. MAY, 1850. On a review of their labours during the past year, your Committee point, with some satisfaction, to the salutary effect which the knowledge of your Society's existence exercises in checking the commission of evil amongst the Aborigines; and although our operations have...