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from that locality have been mistaken by competent judges of physiog- 

 nomy for Welsh. The inhabitants contrast strongly in colour of hair and 

 eyes with the population of other parts of the county.' 



' In several other counties there appear to be populations differing es- 

 sentially in features ; but a larger number of portraits, taken on a uniform 

 system, in profile and full face, would be required, together with head- 

 measurements, to enable the Committee to define racial characteristics. 



* The Committee have been furnished with a fine series of photographs 

 of eleven typical inhabitants of the district around Bradford, Yorkshire, 

 taken and presented by Messrs. Appleton & Co., photographers, of Brad- 

 ford, and selected and described by Mr. Thomas Tate, F.G.S., to whom 

 the Committee are much indebted. 



' Owing to the funds at the disposal of the Committee being required 

 for the reduction of the mass of observations that have been acquired, no 

 other original photographs have been taken this year under their direc- 

 tion. Pew consequently of those that have been obtained are of value 

 for strict scientific examination ; and by far the greater part of England, 

 and Scotland, and the whole of Ireland, the Channel Islands, and the 

 Isle of Man are unrepresented at present by any photographs.' ^ 



The Committee would therefore press on the consideration of the 

 Committee of Recommendations the advisability of an extra grant for the 

 acquisition of photographs. 



XI. Conclusion. 



The Committee request that they may be reappointed, and suggest 

 that the reference should be in the more general terms ' for the purpose 

 of continuing the collection of anthropometric observations and of photo- 

 graphs of the typical races of the Empire.' 



They have received most efficient services in abstracting the returns 

 and otherwise from their assistant secretary, Mr. J. Henry Young. 



Report of the Committee, consisting of Dr. Pye-Smith, Professor 

 M. Foster, and Professor Burdon Sanderson (^Secretary), ap- 

 pointed for the purpose of investigating the Influence of Bodily 

 Exercise on the Elimination of Nitrogen (the experimients con- 

 ducted by Mr. North). 



During the past year four series of preliminary experiments, each of 

 several weeks' duration, have been made by the Committee on the subject, 

 the expenses of which have been met from other funds. In the course 

 of these experiments unexpected difficulties have been encountered 

 relating to method. The most serious of these difficulties having now 

 been for the most part overcome, we are in a position to proceed with 

 our inquiries next winter, and have therefore to request that the sum of 

 SOL, previously granted to us, may again be placed at our disposal. 



' Out of eighty recruits who joined the West Norfolk Militia this spring, there 

 were only three with black or very dark hair and eyes. 



2 Since the last meeting of the sub-committee several portraits of natives of 

 Heligoland have been received as a gift from the divisional officer of the Coast 

 Guard connected with the island. 



