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in anthropology, and in particular for travellers, were 

 drawn up by a committee which included Francis 

 Galton, Lubbock, Clements Markham, and E. B. 

 Tylor. This committee's work led to the production 

 of a book of Notes and Queries in Anthropology, 

 which has passed through three successive editions 

 down to the present time, the Royal Anthro- 

 pological Institute undertaking the sale. In 1893 a 

 committee in Scotland began the study of Scottish 

 place-names. Its work was merged in that of a 

 larger committee which in 1894 initiated an ethno- 

 graphical survey of the United Kingdom. This 

 committee published a succession of reports in the 

 annual volumes of the Association down to 1899. 

 It had inquired into places suitable for the survey, 

 as containing populations where there had been 

 comparatively little admixture of race ; it had drawn 

 up a code of instructions for observers, and had 

 enlisted the voluntary assistance of local societies 

 and local observers in making measurements, collect- 

 ing items of folk-lore, and otherwise. It concluded 

 its labours with the hope that the work would be 

 continued by a body possessing ampler means. 



Anthropometric investigations in the British 

 Isles have engaged the attention of the Association 

 with little intermission from 1875 down to recent 

 years. Of the various committees which have dealt 

 with this subject from various aspects, that which was 

 appointed in 1875 to collect observations of the height, 

 weight, and other physical characters of the in- 

 habitants of our islands, and presented its final report 

 in 1883, is of particular note because upon its work 

 were based all more recent standards and estimates, 

 and its results were found of particular importance 

 when the country was forced to take stock of its man- 



