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Museum. The remainder will be distributed variously. The publication 

 of results is a matter for consideration by the Committee. 



In the foregoing report I have confined myself to a narrative of the 

 proceedings of the expedition. It is as yet too early to speak definitely 

 of what the total results will be. But I think I may safely say, from what 

 I have learnt regarding the birds from Mr. Sclater, and regarding the 

 land shells from Col. Godwin- Austen, as well as from what I know 

 of the plant collections, that the results promise to be of exceptional in- 

 terest. What has been done by the expedition is but a fragment of what 

 there is to be accomplished. In exploring the island, I deemed it better, 

 considering the short time of our sojourn, rather to attempt to cover as 

 much ground as possible, with the view of obtaining a representative 

 collection, than to examine in detail a limited tract of country. By doing 

 this, much barren land was travelled over, and many rich and fertile 

 spots were necessarily only superficially looked at. Especially amongst 

 the hills of the Haggier range are there valleys which would well 

 repay a careful and extended investigation. The expedition just com- 

 pleted ought to be considered only preliminary, for I am assured a rich 

 harvest awaits any collector who may visit the island. 



If at any future time an expedition should be sent to the island, it 

 would be well if the date of its arrival were timed so that it should have 

 the last months and the first months of a year upon the island. Our ex- 

 pedition reached the island too late in the year, so that before we left 

 the heat was so intense as to prevent our doing so much work 

 as we desired. Again, the inaccuracy of our knowledge of the geography 

 of the island is a point to which the attention of future expeditions 

 should be directed. The chart based on Wellsted's observations is the 

 only available one, and that is so incomplete and incorrect as to be almost 

 useless to anyone moving about the island. 



In conclusion, I desire to express my hearty thanks, and those of the 

 other members of the expedition, to the Committee for their aid. Also to 

 General Loch, C.B. ; Major Goodfellow; Dr. Hay; Capt. Heron, R.N., 

 and ofiScers of H.M.S. Seagull, and to the officers of the despatch- 

 boat Dagmar, for the very kind way they one and all co-operated to 

 make the expedition successful. 



Report of the Goinniittee consisting of the Eight Hon. A. J. ]MtJN- 

 DELLA, M.P., James Heywood, Esq., F.R.S., Stephen Bourne, 

 Esq., Chas. Doncaster, Esq., the Rev. A. Bourne, Taiso Masaki, 

 Esq., Constantine Molloy, Esq., R. J. Pye-Smith, Esq., Dr. 

 Hancock, and Robert Wilkinson, Esq. (Secretary), appointed 

 to consider and report on the German and other systems of 

 teaching the Deaf to speak. 



The Committee was appointed to consider this subject in consequence 

 of the reading of a paper at Sheffield by Dr. David Buxton. 



The General Committee, by this appointment, confirmed the resolu- 

 tion of the Sectional Committee, and of Dr. Buxton's audience — ' That 

 a Training College for Teachers of the German system of teaching the 

 deaf — by speech and lip reading — is a matter of national importance,' and 



