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very elaborate and carefully prepared schedule of questions and 

 directions for distribution among those who have signified 

 their willingness to assist, and as a guarantee that the answers 

 obtained to the questions in the schedules will be utilised to 

 the fullest extent, certain members of the Committee, specially 

 qualified for each branch of the work, have undertaken to 

 examine and digest the reports when received. 



It may be remarked in passing that the Anthropological 

 Society of Paris has within the past year formed a Commission 

 of its members to collect, in a systematic manner, the scattered 

 data which, when united and digested, shall form "une 

 anthropologie veritablement nationale de la France," and 

 has issued a circular with schedules of the required ob- 

 servations. These are, however, at present limited to the 

 physical characters of the population. 



Among the many services rendered to the science of 

 Anthropology by the British Association, not the least has 

 been the aid it has afforded in the publication of that most 

 useful little manual entitled Notes and Queries on Anthropology, 

 of which the first edition was brought out exactly twenty 

 years ago (1874), under the supervision and partly at the 

 expense of General Pitt-Eivers. Since that time the subject 

 has made such great advances that a second edition, brought 

 up to the requirements of the present time, was urgently 

 called for. A Committee of the British Association, appointed 

 to consider the report upon the best means of doing this, 

 recommended that the work should be placed in the hands of 

 the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 

 This recommendation was approved by the Association, and 

 grants amounting to 70 were made to assist in defraying 

 the cost of publication. The Council of the Anthropological 

 Institute appointed a Committee of its members to undertake 

 the revision of the different subjects, with Dr. J. G. Garson 

 and Mr. C. H. Eead as editors respectively of the two parts 

 into which it is divided. The work was published at the end 

 of the year 1892, and is invaluable to the traveller or in- 

 vestigator in pointing out the most important subjects of 

 inquiry, and in directing the observations he may have the 

 means of making into a methodical and systematic channel. 



