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missionary societies only, tlie Commission of Anthropology might 

 approach : 



For tlie Zulu : The American Zulu Mission, the Dutch Re- 

 formed Church, the United Free Church Mission, and the 

 Scandinavian and Norwegian Missions. 



For the Xosa-Kaffir : The Moravian and Scottish Missions. 



For the Matabele : The London Mission Society. 



For the Swazi : The South Africa General Mission. 



For the Sutn : The Paris Evangelical Mission. 



For the Chwana : The London Missionary Society and the 

 Hermansburg Mission. 



For the Pedi and the Venda : The Berlin Missionary Society. 



For the' Thonga-Ronga : The Swiss Mission. 



For the Chopi : The Mission of the Bishop of Lebombo. 



For the Tonga of Inhambane and the ^Lashona : The Methodist 

 Episcopal and Free Methodists of America. 



For the Ndjao of Gazaland : The American Mission of Mount 

 Selinda. 



For the Ovampn and the Xamaqua : The Rhenish and Finnish 

 Missions, etc. 



The individual Weslevan and Angliran and Roman Catholic 

 missionaries who are spread amongst the many tribes might also be 

 approached. 



The questions to be inquired into might be distributed over ten 

 years, for instance, and each quarter, answers on a certain number 

 of them would appear, in full or in resume, in the South African 

 Review of Anthropologv. Should this plan be followed, there would 

 "be soon an enormous quantity of material gathered. Special attention 

 would be paid to tribes still unknow-n or little known, as the Chopi, 

 the Xdjao, the Manyike, etc. Though the raison d'etre of the 

 Review would be the publication of this purely scientific information, 

 it would be useful to open wide our periodical to any correspondence 

 about native questions. We dearly want, in South Africa, a 

 paper dealing authoritatively with all the aspects of that difficult, 

 vexing, infinitely important question. The scope and the interest 

 of the Review would be greatlv increased if it were to accept 

 impartially any sincere expression of opinion on native policy, native 

 rights, etc. And the circle of readers would be greatly enlarged 

 should the Review show a true grasp of the question. 



4. The preceding suggestions apply especially to Bantu Anthrop- 

 ology. But we have in South Africa another race which is very 

 nearly extinguished, and for which other provisions ought to be made, 

 namely the Bushmen. A lot is known about them, owing to the 

 studies of Bleek, and of ^Nlrs. Llovd. But how strange it is 

 that a great part of that valuable material, gathered by 

 scientists of such prominence, should still remain unpublished and 

 lie almo.st useless in the " Grev Library " in Cape Town ! Our 

 Commission ought to have all those manuscripts printed, even if it 

 were onlv in honour of that man whom Dr. Haddon calls fitlv a 



