FooiTis of Schedule prepared by a Committee of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, appointed to Organise an Ethno- 

 graphical Survey of the United Kingdom. 



Members of the Committee. 



Francis Galton, F.RS., J. G. Garson, M.D., and E. W. Brabrook, 

 F.S.A. (Chairman), representing the Anthropological Institute. 



Edward Clodd, G. L. Gomme, F.S.A., and Joseph Jacobs, M.A., re- 

 presenting the Folklore Society. 



G. W. G. Leveson Gower, V.P.S.A., George Payne, F.S.A., and 

 General Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., representing the Society of Antiquaries of 

 London. 



Sir C. M. Kennedy, C.B., K.C.M.G., and E. G. Ravenstein, repre- 

 senting the Royal Statistical Society. 



A Member representing the Dialect Society. 



Dr. J. Beddoe, F.R.S. ; Arthur J. Evans, F.S.A. ; Sir H. H. Howorth, 

 F.R.S. ; Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S. 



John Rhys, M.A., Jesus Professor of Celtic in the University of 

 Oxford, and also Professor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., E. S. Hartland, F.S. A.,, 

 Edward Laws, the Ven. Archdeacon Thomas, F.S.A., S. W. Williams, 

 F.S.A., and J. Romilly Allen, F.S.A. Scot. (Secretary), representing the 

 Cambrian Archaeological Society, and forming a Sub- Committee for Wales. 



Joseph Anderson, LL.D., Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland. 



Professor D. J. Cunningham, F.R.S., C. R. Browne, M.D., and Pro- 

 fessor A. C. Haddon, M.A., representing the Royal tish Academy, and 

 forming a Sub-Committee for Ireland (Prof. Haddon, Secretary). 



E. Sidney Hartland, F.S.A., Secretary. 



This Committee has already made two preliminary reports to the 

 Association, in which the names of 367 villages or places in various parts 

 of the United Kingdom have been indicated as especially to deserve 

 ethnographic study. The list, large as it is, is not exhaustive. For 

 these and such other villages and places as may appear to be suitable, 

 the Committee propose to record — 



(1) Physical types of the inhabitants ; 



(2) CuiTent traditions and beliefs ; 



(3) Peculiarities of dialect ; 



(4) Monuments and other remains of ancient culture ; and 



(5) Histoincal evidence as to continuity of race. 



^*^ All communications should be addressed to ' The Secretary op 

 THE Ethnographic Sxievet, British Association, Burlington Honse, 

 London, W.' 



