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been collected, the Committeo recommend that a small grant be made to 

 cover the cost of this work, so that it may be possible to present a satis- 

 factory report to the British Association. 



Ethnological Survey of Canada. — Report of tlue Committee, consistinr] 

 of Professor D. P. Penhallow {Chairman), Mr. 0. Hill-Tout 

 {Secretary), Mr, E. W. Brabrook, Dr. A. C. Haddon, Mr. 

 E. S. Hartland, Professor E. B. Tylor, Sir John Bourinot, 

 Mr. B. Sulte, Mr. David Boyle, Mr. C. N. Bell, Professor 

 John Mayor, Mr. C. F. Hunter, Dr. W. F. Ganong, and Rev. 

 John Campbell. 



In our last report attention was directed to the efforts being made to enlist 

 the co-operation of the various provincial Governments in the work of this 

 Committee with a view of putting it upon a more permanent basis. At 

 the Toronto Meeting of the Royal Society of Canada, held on May 27, 

 the Council, in submitting its report, made a lengthy reference to our 

 work, and pointed to the great necessity of having it prosecuted with 

 vigour while material is available. A joint committee from Sections 

 2 and 4 was appointed to take the matter into consideration, with the 

 result that the Society unanimously adopted the following resolution : — 



' Resolved, that Hon. J. W. Longley, Sir James Grant, Dr. T. J. W. 

 Burgess, Rev. John Campbell, Dr. George Bryce, Mr. Wilfrid Campbell, 

 and Professor D. P. Penhallow, Chairman, as Chairman of the British 

 Association Committee on an Ethnological Survey, be appointed a stand- 

 ing Committee to co-operate with the British Association Committee on 

 an Ethnological Survey, and that they be empowered to take such steps 

 as may be necessary to secure from the various provincial Governments, 

 as also from the Dominion Government, the adoption of legislation 

 relative to the establishment of national and provincial museums of 

 ethnology, and the organisation of a permanent Ethnological Survey of 

 the entire Dominion.' 



The Ontario Government has already taken the initiative in such 

 work, and it is believed that the admirable beginnings already made by 

 Mr. David Boyle in the Archtxsological Museum connected with the De- 

 partment of Education may serve as an incentive to similar efforts in 

 other provinces. 



The plan now before the Committee of the Royal Society of Canada 

 will be prosecuted with vigour. It is substantially the one which the 

 British Association Committee has had under consideration for some time, 

 but which they have not been able to carry into effect. It contemplates 

 the formation of a strong central committee as a nucleus within the British 

 Association Committee. This central committee will control all matters 

 relating to the direction and organisation of research and the distribution 

 of funds. In return for linancial support it will secure to the several 

 provinces such ethnological material as may specifically relate to each, 

 reserving any duplicates for exchange and for deposit in the British 

 Museum or such other suitable place as may be selected. 



Mr. Hill-Tout has continued to carry on his investigations among the 

 Salish of British Columbia under greater diflaculties than usual during 



1902. A a 



