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REPORT — 1900. 



■ Note. — Since this report was drawn up an important mathematical 

 paper ' On Association of Attributes in Statistics, with Illustrations from 

 the Material of the Childhood Society &c.,' by Mr. G. TJdiiy Yule, has been 

 published in the ' Philosophical Transactions of tlie Royal Society.' The 

 suggestions there made as to statistical methods of presenting correlations 

 are likely to prove most useful in future research. 



Charts have been prepared from these Reports by Mr. C. S. Loch and 

 exhibited at the Paris Congress by the Charity Organisation Society. 



Silchester Excavation. — Eeport of the Committee, consisting of Mr. 

 Arthur J. Evans (Chairman), Mr. J. L. Myres {Secretary), 

 and Mr. E. W. Brabrook, appointed to co-operate with the Sil- 

 chester Excavation Fund Committee in their Excavations. 



The Committee has to report that the excavations at Silchester in 1899 

 were begun on May 5, and continued, with the usual break durin the 

 harvest, until November 16. 



The examination of the south-west quarter of the town having been 



completed in 1898, it was resolved to continue the excavation of the 

 northern half of the site. To suit the convenience of the tenant, the 

 operations of 1899 were restricted to the insula (XXI) east of insula I 



