ON THE NORTH-WESTERN TRIBES OF CANADA. 285 



Second Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. E. B. Tylok, 

 Dr. Gr. M. Dawson, General Sir J. H. Lefroy, Dr. Daniel 

 Wilson, Mr. E. Gr. Haliburton, and Mr. GtEOrge W. Bloxam 

 (Secretary), appointed for the purpose of investigating and 

 publishing reports on the physical characters, languages, and 

 industrial and social condition of the North-western Tribes of 

 the Dominion of Canada. 



The Committee beg to report that during the past year an extensive 

 correspondence Las been carried on with representatives of the Hudson 

 Bay Company, missionaries, and others who are in constant contact with 

 the Indians, and that a large amount of material is gradually being 

 collected. A series of questions is in course of being drawn up, and it is 

 hoped that these will bring in much valuable information during the 

 winter. Mr. Horatio Hale has, unfortunately, been prevented from 

 making his promised visit to the Indian tribes duz-ing the past year, but 

 the Committee hope that next spring Mr. Hale will be able to carry out 

 his intention of visiting the North-West, and they have to acknowledge 

 their indebtedness to Mr. Hale for much of the information already 

 collected. 



Mr. R. G. Haliburton has promised to place at the disposal of the 

 Committee the replies of Canadian Indian agents, through the Indian 

 Department, to circulars sent to them by him in 1870 and 1871, and also 

 a statement of the Chief Factor of the Hudson Bay Company at Queen 

 Charlotte Island respecting the customs, beliefs, &c., of the Indians there. 



The Committee ask for reappointment. 



Report to the Council of the Corresponding Societies Committee, 

 consisting of Mr. Francis Galton {Chairvian), Professor A. W. 

 Williamson, Captain Douglas Galton, Professor Botd Dawkins, 

 Sir Rawson Rawson, Dr. J, G. Garson, Dr. J. Evans, Mr. J. 

 HoPKiNSON, Professor R. Meldola (Secretary), Mr. W. WhitakeRj 

 Mr. G. J. Stmons, and General Pitt-Rivers. 



The Corresponding Societies Committee of the British Association beg 

 to submit to the Council a statement of the work done at Aberdeen by 

 the Conference of Delegates, with comments thereon. 



Two Conferences were held — one on Thursday, September 10, and the 

 other on Tuesday, September 15 — both meetings having been called at 

 3.15 p.m., and lasting in each case about one hour. 



The following is the list of the Delegates nominated, and of the 

 Societies represented by them : — 



Prof. J. W. H. Trail, M.A. . . Aberdeen Natural History Society. 

 Mr. Thomas Lister . . . Barnsley Naturalists' Society. 

 Eev. George Robinson . . Belfast Naturalists' Field Club. 

 Eev. H. Boydon .... Birmingham Natural History and Micro- 



scopical Society. 



