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 Table II. — continued. 



Report of the Covimittee, consisting of General Pitt-Rivers, Dr. 

 Beddoe, Professor Flower, Mr. Francis Gtalton, Dr. E. B. 

 Tylor, and Dr. Garson, appointed for the purpose of editing 

 a new Edition of ' Anthropological Notes and Queries,'' with 

 authority to distribute gratuitously the unsold copies of the 

 present edition. 



The Committee found that tbe cost of printing and publishing the 

 first edition of ' Anthropological Notes and Queries ' was defrayed partly 

 out of the grant voted by the British Association for that purpose in 1874 

 and partly by General Pitt-Rivers, who edited the work. The first set of 

 copies printed was paid for by the Association, and was exhausted a few 

 years after publication. Additional copies being then required, they were 

 printed at the expense of General Pitt- Rivers, who generously placed 

 them at the disposal of the Association. It was for the distribution of 

 what remains of these copies that the Committee had to arrange. Fifty 

 of them have been placed at the disposal of the Anthropological Institute 

 of Great Britain and Ireland for gratuitous distribution to such persons 

 as the Council of that institute may deem advisable in the interests of 

 anthropological research. Prof. Flower and Dr. E. B. Tylor have also 

 undertaken to distribute copies to travellers and others willing and 

 desirous to supply information wanted for the scientific study of anthro- 

 pology at home. The Committee consider that the plan it has adopted 

 for the distribution of unsold copies is such as will make the work more 

 widely known than heretofore, and probably create a greater demand for 

 the new edition when it is published than there might otherwise be. 



The Committee, after carefully considering the question of how the 

 preparation of the new edition can be most eflBciently done, strongly 

 recommend that the work be entrusted to the Anthropological Institute 

 of Great Britain and Ireland. That being a body specially and perma- 

 nently organised for the purpose of advancing the various branches of 

 Anthropology, and, as such, having many facilities not possessed by a com- 

 mittee, as well as a Council which meets regularly, and at short intervals, 

 during the greater part of the year, it is peculiarly well fitted to cany 

 out the necessary arrangements for a thorough revision of the work, and 

 after it is published to bring it under the notice of those for whom it is 

 intended. The Committee have reason to believe that the Anthropological 



