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formation of a sub-committee. With this view, a circular has been 

 addressed to a selected number of medical men, whose names were obtained 

 from the lists of those who had contributed to the researches of the Col- 

 lective Investigation Committee of the British Medical Association. [See 

 Appendix.] As yet, howevei', the Committee have not been fortunate in 

 obtaining the favourable response to their application to these gentlemen 

 for which they had hoped. 



10. The Committee propose, at the close of the present meeting, to 

 arrange for a special survey of the district of Galloway, during the latter 

 part of September and the month of October 1895, with the view of 

 ascertaining the special divergencies in dialect, the prehistoric monuments, 

 the old cultivation sites, the folklore, the physical types of the people, 

 and objects of obsolete culture in domestic and agi-icultural occupations. 

 The Committee are glad to find that the Rev. Dr. Walter G regor, author 

 of ' Notes on the Folklore of the North-east of Scotland ' and other 

 works, is willing to undertake this survey. The expense is estimated at 

 not more than 20^. 



11. Should Dr. Gregor's time allow, they hope he maybe induced, 

 later in the year 1895-96, to undertake a similar survey in the districts 

 of Caithness, Morayshire, and Nairn. 



12. Only 10^. has been drawn in the past year out of the 30^. voted at 

 the Oxford meeting, although more has been expended. The Committee 

 ask for a renewal of the 201. not drawn, and for a further grant of SOL, 

 making 50^. altogether. 



APPENDIX I. 



Circular to local Societies. 



Dear Sir, — I am instructed by the Ethnographical Survey Committee 

 to send you herewith a copy of the schedules prepared for the purpose of 

 the inquiry entrusted to them into the mental and physical characteristics 

 of the races of the United Kingdom. The heads of inquiry, as you will 

 see, ai'e very various ; and it is hoped that some at least of them will in- 

 terest the members of your Society. With the object of making them as 

 widely known as possible, the Committee have arranged with the pi'inters 

 (Messrs. Spottiswoode & Co., New Street Square, London, E.C.) to 

 supply copies to you, upon request, at the rate of 11. Is. for 400 copies, or, 

 if your own paper be used, 16s. By this means you will be enabled to 

 issue them with your transactions, or report, or to take any other means 

 which may appear more suitable to bring the subject under the notice of 

 all your members. 



You will observe that villages and retired places are spoken of in the 

 accompanying print as especially deserving of ethnogi'aphic study. The 

 object is to devote attention chiefly to the inhabitants of districts where 

 the population has long been stationary and little changed by the move- 

 ments of modern life. It is desired to obtain physical measurements and 

 photographs of individuals who appear typical in their respective districts, 

 individuals selected, if possible, from among those whose forefathers have 

 dwelt in the neighbourhood as far back as can be traced. With the phy- 

 sical peculiarities of the people it is desired to correlate their dialect, their 

 history as exhibited by archaeological remains, and their manners and 



