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Sussex and East Kent. Miss Whitmore-Jones, of Chastleton House, 

 Oxfordshire, has kindly arranged for the photographing of some of the 

 inhabitants of that parish whose pedigree can be traced in the parish 

 registers up to their very commencement, nearly 300 years ago. (Six 

 groups thus obtained are laid upon the table.) Mr. Hooper, a skilled 

 photographer, has promised to furnish the Sub-Committee with specimens 

 from several districts. They have had also most liberally placed at their 

 disposal the important collections which have been made during many 

 years past by their colleague, Dr. Beddoe. The Rev. Mr. Crompton, in 

 Norfolk, Mr. Spence Bate, in Cornwall, Mr. C. Staniland Wake, at Hull, 

 Mr. Sorby, at Sheffield, Dr. Muirhead, for Scotland, and numerous others, 

 have also kindly undertaken to collect photographs for the Sub- Committee. 

 Collectors for Ireland are much wanted. 



Though the Sub-Committee are as yet only on the threshold of their task, 

 and their operations have been hitherto tentative, they are hopeful of use- 

 ful results. Their sense of the importance and interest of the work has 

 grown with every step they have taken, and it is abundantly clear that, 

 if not now completed, it will become more and more difficult in future 

 years. The influence of railways has during the last fifty years greatly 

 increased migration and intermixture, and that influence must increase 

 instead of diminishing. It has indeed been suggested to the Sub- Committee 

 by some of their correspondents that the requirement as to pedigree is 

 already too onerous for urban and manufacturing districts, and that in 

 such cases it will be necessary to be content with proof that a mere 

 majority of the three generations, and not the whole, belong to the dis- 

 trict. 



The Sub- Committee respectfully recommend that they be reappointed, 

 with the view of pressing forward the work to completion. They would 

 be glad if a few practical photographers could be added to their number ; 

 and they again ask for the assistance of any competent persons who will 

 undertake to select six or ten typical photographs in the district they 

 know best, and for any other aid in carrying out the undertaking that the 

 members can give. 



In connexion with this branch of the subject, the Sub- Committee have 

 watched with much interest the experiments of their colleague, Mr. Francis 

 Galton, in preparing compound photographs from several individuals 

 belonging to the same category. In dealing with the features of criminals, 

 Mr. Galton has produced some remarkable results, and the Sub-Committee 

 will not fail to inquire whether an application of his process would not be 

 useful for their own purposes in generalising the peculiar features observed 

 in different localities. 



Though the Sub-Committee have of necessity postponed the collection 

 of photographs of races of the empire outside the United Kingdom, Sir 

 Rawson Rawson has been kind enough to obtain for them from the 

 Colonial Office a set of the very fine series of photographs which that 

 department obtained some years ago under the advice of Professor Huxley ; 

 and the authorities of the India Office have also kindly placed at the dis • 

 posal of the Sub-Committee their valuable collection of photographs of 

 Indian races. 



For the Sub- Committee, 



E. W. Brabrook. 



July, 1878. 



