214 REPORT—1874, 
amount of soil, and a smaller proportion of the total nitrogen daily voided, 
would be collected in an earth-closet. The increased percentage of nitrogen 
actually found is seen to be less than one third of the amount calculated on 
the foregoing assumption. There can, indeed, be little doubt that there is a 
considerable evolution of nitrogen in some form; and the probability is that 
it takes place to a great extent as free nitrogen. 
The Committee would refer to their former Reports (III. pp. 187 & 188, 
TV.p. 143, V. pp. 413 & 439) for their opinion of the system in its other aspects 
than that of the composition and manurial value of the product. 
Report on the Anthropological Notes and Queries for the use of 
Travellers published by the Committee, consisting of Colonel Lanz 
Fox, Dr. Beppoz, Mr, Franks, Mr. Francis Gatton, Mr. 
KE. W. Brazsroox, Sir Jonn Luspocn, Sir Watrer Extior, Mr. 
Cuements Marxuam,,and Mr. E. B. Tytor. By Colonel A. 
Lane Fox, Secretary of the Committee. 
Tuxssz Notes and Queries are the result of a resolution of the General Com- 
mittee passed at the Brighton Meeting in 1872, to the following effect :— 
«That Colonel A. Lane Fox, Dr. Beddoe, Mr. Franks, Mr, Francis Galton, 
Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Sir John Lubbock, Sir Walter Elliot, Mr. Clements 
Markham, and Mr. E. B. Tylor be a committee for the purpose of preparing 
and publishing brief forms of instruction for travellers, ethnologists, and 
other anthropological observers; that Colonel Lane Fox be the Secretary, 
and that the sum of £25 be placed at their disposal for the purpose.” 
At the Bradford Meeting in 1873 the Committee was reappointed, and 
the grant increased to £50, with the view of covering all possible expenses 
and producing a work calculated to suffice for the use of travellers for some 
time to come, 
A report on the progress of the work was made to the General Committee 
last year, to which it is unnecessary to refer here. The object of the book 
is to promote accurate anthropological observation on the part of travellers, 
and to enable those who are not anthropologists themselves to supply the 
information which is wanted for the scientific study of anthropology at home. 
Similar instructions on a smaller scale have been published by this Asso- 
ciation in former years, as also by the Smithsonian Institute, the Anthropo- 
logical Society of Paris, the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and 
Treland, and other bodies ; but many of them have become obsolete, and are 
but little known to travellers at the present time. 
The chief defect of most of these works has been their insufficient detail. 
It is not enough to publish such general queries as might suggest themselves 
unaided to any well-informed trayeller ; what is wanted is to draw attention 
to minutiz which might ordinarily be expected to pass unnoticed, but which 
are often of the first importance to the student of the different branches of 
anthropological research. ; 
To this end it has been thought advisable that the questions on the several 
sections should be drawn up by different anthropologists, each of whom has 
paid special attention to the subject treated, 
The work has been diyided into two main diyisions—the first relating to 
the constitution of man, physical and mental ; the second to the history and 
development of culture, . 
Under the first division we haye questions relating to ethnology proper, 
