482 REPORT— 1873. 



identifying specimens; but we may also check tlie superficial and liasty 

 generalization and classification of the more advanced. 



In regard to the stratigraphical distribution and duration in time of these 

 forms, yvG must meantime remain silent ; but by-and-by these will be duly 

 recorded. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Colonel Lane Fox, Dr. Beddoe, 

 Mr. Franks, Mr. Francis Galtox, Mr. E. W. Brajjrook, Sir J. 

 Lubbock, Bart., Sir Walter Elliot, Mr. Clements R. Markham, 

 and Mr. E. B. Tylor, appointed for the purpose of jjrej^aring and 

 jiublishiny brief forms of Instructions for Travellers, Ethnologists, and 

 other Anthroj)ological Observers. Drawn up by Colonel A. H. Lane 

 Fox. 



SnoETLY after the last Meeting of the Association I received an intimation 

 from the Geographical Society that two expeditions were about to start in 

 search of Dr. Livingstone — the one under Lieut. W. J. Grandy, E.N., by the 

 Congo river, and the other, under Lieut. Cameron, from the East Coast — and 

 requesting that anthropological instructions might be furnished to those 

 officers for their guidance. As not more than a week's notice was given me 

 of the departure of these expeditions, and it appeared desirable that each 

 party should be provided with printed instructions, I wrote at once to several 

 members of the Committee, requesting them to send me a series of questions 

 for the use of the travellers ; and the following gentlemen having responded 

 to my appeal without delay, I caused their contributions to be printed in a 

 small volume having blank leaves for memorandums and answers to the 

 questions, each of which was numbered ; and a suflicient number were fur- 

 nished to the officers commanding each expedition, who were requested to 

 distribute them on the coast to Her Majesty's Consuls, officers of the 

 Royal Navy, and others who might be in a position to use them, or to place 

 them in the hands of other travellers who might set out on expeditions 

 towards the interior from time to time. 



The following Members of the Committee were contributors to this volume, 

 viz. A. W. Franks, Esq., on General Anthropology; Prof. lloUeston, F.ll.S., 

 on Physical Anthropology ; Dr. Beddoe, F.ll.S., on Physical Anthropology ; 

 E. B. Tylor, F.ll.S., on llehgions, Mythology, and Customs ; Colonel A. H. 

 Lane Fox on the Use of Iron in Africa, and on Prehistoric Arcliajology. 



I enclose a copy of these instructions for the information of the General 

 Committee. 



Although these instructions have been the means of carrying out to a 

 great extent the wishes of the Council of the Association in appointing the 

 Committee, and it was important that the opportunity afi'orded by the start- 

 ing of these expeditions should not be lost, yet as the instructions were 

 drawn up solely with a view to African exjiloration, and a certain amount of 

 repetition was apparent in the volume, owing to the hurried manner in 

 which it was drawn up and printed, so as to be in time for the travellers 

 before starting, it did not apjiear to me to meet as fully as could be desired 

 the intentions of the General Committee in placing a grant of £2b at our 

 disposal, such grant having been intended for the information of travellera 



