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delay. The exploration on these lines has received the sympathetic sup- 

 port of the county of Homerset, and of those outside the county who are 

 interested in the social state of Britain in the centuries immediately pre- 

 ceding the Roman Conquest. 



Pu/meoitation Survey of the School Children of Scotland. — Report of 

 the Committee, eonsidinr/ of Mr. E. W. Brabrook {Chairman), 

 Mr. J. Gray (Secretary), Dr. A. 0. Haddon, Professor A. 

 Macalister, Professor D. J. Cunningham, Mr. J, F, Tocher, 

 a;nd Dr. W. H. R. RiVERS. 



The progress made by the Scottish Ethnographic Committee with this 

 survey during the past year has not been so great as was anticipated in 

 the last report. The delay has been principally caused by the difficulty 

 experienced in getting lithographed colour cards to be used as colour 

 scales for hair and eyes. It was considered that precise and reliable 

 statistics could not be obtained from a number of diflFerent observers, 

 except a standard colour cai'd was sent to each. About twenty different 

 shades of hair were collected and an equal number of glass eyes. These 

 were sent for reproduction to a photo-lithographer, but after lepeated 

 attempts he failed to get a satisfactory result by direct photography. 

 The shades have now been copied successfully in oil colours, and it is hoped 

 that these copies can be successfully reproduced by lithography. The 

 proofs are expected to be ready at an early date. 



The application for co-operation to the Educational Institute of 

 Scotland has been very successful, tliis association, whose assistance is so 

 essential to the success of the survey, having passed a resolution recom- 

 mending the teachers to supply the information desired by the Committee, 



The subdivision of Scotland into 110 numbered districts has now been 

 completed. As soon as satisfactory colour cards have been received the 

 schedules will be sent out and the survey carried out as rapidly as possible. 



The Psychology and Sociology of the Todas and other Tribes oj 

 Southern India. —lleport of tJte Committee, consisting of Professor 

 RiDGEWAY {Chairnuin), Dr. W. H, R. Rivers {Secretary), Dr. A. 

 C. Haddon, aiid Mr. W. Crooke. 



On reaching India Dr. Rivers first visited two hill tribes with Mr. Edgar 

 Thurston, to whom he owes many thanks for help during his visit to India. 

 These tribes — the Sholagas and Uralis — live in the jungle in hills in the 

 northern part of the Coimbatore district, and while Mr. Thurston in- 

 vestigated the physical characters and the customs of the people Dr. Rivers 

 devoted his attention to psycho-physical work, of which an account will 

 shortly appear in the ' Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum,' edited 

 by Mr, Thurston, 



The remainder of his visit to India was devoted to the Todas of the 

 Nilgiri Hills, though a few observations were made on members of two 

 other tribes inhabiting the hills — the Kotas and Badagas, The psycho- 

 physical work was carried out on the same lines as those described in the 

 Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits, 

 vol. ii. parts i. and ii. Over 500 Todas were examined and a large 

 number of observations made which have not yet been fully worked out. 



