ON THE NOMAD TRIBES OF ASIA MINOR. 547 
be read Persica, but we discovered two inscriptions with the word 
Perasia thereon, distinctly proving that Strabo was right. 
4 Furthermore, by the identification of this site, the route Alexander the 
Great took before the battle of Issos is more clearly demonstrated. 
From the coast line he went inland to Castabala, sent Parmenio to 
reconnoitre the pass through which the main road to Syria then passed, 
and when he had made sure of the ground behind him he dropped down 
___ tothe coast again, which is about twenty miles distant, keeping the Amanus 
mountains to his left. Hitherto travellers have sought for Castabala 
down by the coast, but the identification of our site by epigraphy leaves 
no room for doubt that this was the point to which Alexander made. 
Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir WrLLIaM Turner, Mr. 
BioxaM, Professor FLower, Dr. E. B. TyLor, and Mr. RISLEY, 
appointed to investigate the Habits, Customs, Physical Charac- 
teristics, and Religions of the Natives of India. 
Preparations have been made for carrying on the work of the Committee 
during the ensuing year, when Mr. Risley will have returned to India. 
A series of questions specially applicable to the natives of India is being 
drawn up, and the Committee anticipate valuable results from the replies 
that will be received from the officials and others amongst whom these 
questions will be circulated. 
The Committee ask for reappointment, and that the grant of 101., 
which was made last year in view of possible preliminary expenses but 
has not been drawn, may be renewed. 
Report of the Committee, consisting of General Pitt-Rivers, Chair- 
man, Dr. Garson, Secretary, and Dr. BeEppoE, Professor FLOWER, 
Mr. Francis GaLton, and Dr. E. B. TyLor, appointed for the 
purpose of editing a new Edition of ‘ Anthropological Notes 
and Queries.’ 
Tue Committee has to report that during the past year substantial 
progress has been made with the new edition of ‘ Anthropological Notes 
and Queries,’ by the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and 
Ireland, under the supervision of the council, of which body the work is 
being done,.as stated in the last report. During the present year the 
medical portion of the work has been entirely reorganised and rewritten 
by eminent members of the medical profession, and has been printed. 
The part of the work on physical anthropology has been almost entirely 
rewritten, and is all but ready for the press. Some delay has been 
caused by the difficulty of obtaining satisfactory coloured plates for 
standards of the colour of hair, skin, and eyes. Those in the previous 
editions, it has been found, lost colour rapidly, even when not exposed to 
the light. As these standards are necessarily exposed to a considerable 
extent where the book is in constant use changes take place more rapidly ; 
hence the results obtained from them are liable to be very fallacious. 
he desirability of obtaining standard colours which are less liable to 
