64 Circular from the British Association. [Apr. 



It was announced that Col. T. H. Hendley, I. M.S., had expressed a 

 wish to withdraw from the Society. 



The General Secretary reported the death of Mr. W. Connan, an 

 Ordinary Member of the Society. 



The General Secretary reported the presentation of 27 silver coins 

 from the Government of United Provinces of Agra and Ondh. 



The General Secretary announced the presentation of three large 

 photographs of Sculptures by Mr. A. E. Caddy. 



The General Secretary read the following circular issued by a 

 Committee of the British Association for the purpose of collecting 

 photographs of Anthropological interest, forwarded by Mr. T. H. 

 Holland, Director, Geological Survey of India. 



BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF 



SCIENCE. 



ANTHROPOLOGICAL PHOTOGRAPHS COMMITTEE. 



President: C. H. Read, F.S.A., Pres., Anthr. Inst., British Museum, W.C. 

 Secretary: J. L. Mtres, F.S.A., F.R.G.S., Christ Church, Oxford. 



This Committee was appointed by the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science in September, 1898, to provide for the " Collec- 

 tion, Preservation, and Systematic Registration of Photographs of An- 

 thropological Interest." 



A similar Committee on Geological Photographs was appointed in 

 1889, and has organised the valuable collection preserved in the 

 Museum of Practical Geology. The Royal Geographical Society has 

 gradually collected a large number of geographical photographs, many 

 of which are also of anthropological interest. More recently the Hel- 

 lenic Society has announced a large special collection for the use of 

 students of the topography, civilisation and art of Greece. And the 

 Anthropological Institute possesses a considerable collection of photo- 

 graphs, which have been lately mounted and classified ; and has permit- 

 ted the registration of these in the list of the new Anthropological Pho- 

 tographs' Committee. 



The considerations which led to the appointment of this Committee 

 are briefly as follows : — 



(1) A very large number of Anthropological phenomena can only 

 be studied in the field, or by means of accnrate reproductions : but the 

 latter are in many cases difficult to procure, except where typical ex- 



