REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. Ixxxi 



Report of the Council for the year 1899-1900, presented to the General 

 Coinviittee at Bradford on Wednesday, September 5, 1900. 



The Council have nominated Dr. N. Bodington, Vice-Chancellor of 

 the Victoria University, and Professor L. C. Miall, F.R.S., Vice-Presidents 

 for the meeting at Bradford. 



The Council have nominated Professor Weldon, F.R.S., to be a 

 Governor of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom in 

 place of the late Sir William Flower. 



The Council having been informed by Professor Schafer that he does 

 not intend to offer himself for re-election as General Secretary after the 

 meeting at Bradford, desire to record their sense of the valuable services 

 which he has rendered to the Association. 



The Council recommend that Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., be appointed 

 General Secretary in succession to Professor Schafer. 



The following resolutions, referred to the Council by the General 

 Committee, have been considered and acted upon : — 



(1) That in view of the opportunities of ethnographical inquiry which will be 

 presented by the Indian Census, the Council of the Association be requested to 

 urge the Government of India to make use of the Census Officers for the purposes 

 enumerated below, and to place photographers at the service of the Census 

 Officers. 



1. To establish a survey of the jungle races, Bhils, Gonds, and other tribes of 

 the central mountain districts. 



2. To establish a further survey of the Naga, Kuki, and other cognate races 

 of the Assam and Burmese frontiers. 



3. To collect further information about the vagtant and criminal tribes 

 Haburas, Beriyas, Sansij'as, &c., in North and Central India. 



4. To collect physical measurements, particularly of the various Dravidian 

 tribes, in order to determine their origin ; and of the Rajputs and Jats of Raj- 

 putana and the Eastern Panjab, to determine their relation with the Yu-echi and 

 other Indo-Scjthian races. 



5. To furnish a series of photographs of typical specimens of ' he various races ■ 

 of views of archaic industries ; and of other facts interesting to ethnologists. 



The Council appointed a Committee, consisting of Mr. H. Balfour, Mr. 

 F. Galton, Professor A. C. Haddon, Mr. C. H. Read, and the General 

 Officers, to report on this matter. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the Committee, the Council 

 requested the President to address the following letter to the Secretary of 

 State for India : — 



At the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of 

 Science at Dover, attention was called to the special opportunity offered 

 by the Census about to be taken in India for collecting valuable ethno- 

 graphical data concerning the races of the country ; and the Council of 

 the Association having taken the matter into consideration, and bein» 



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