ETHNOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. ' 513 



I am to state that should you desire to make use of the instruments 

 adopted for these particular measurements, the Committee would be 

 pleased to arrange for the loan to you of a set. Probably, however, those 

 used by you in the ordinary course of your practice would be sufficient for 

 the purpose. 



I may add that the Committee think it desirable that any individual 

 measured should also be photographed. The instructions as to photographs 

 have been complained of as somewhat minute ; but their object is to per- 

 mit of the use of the photographs by Mr. Galton's composite method. The 

 Committee will be quite willing, however, to make the best use that can 

 be made of any photographs that do not fully comply with their require- 

 ments. If the procuring of photographs should be a matter of expense 

 the Committee would be glad to be informed of it beforehand, and to 

 render any assistance in their power towards meeting it. 



If, as the Committee venture to hope, you find yourself able to help 

 them, I shall be obliged by your informing me what number of individuals 

 you think you will be able to observe, in order that the necessary copies 

 of the form may be sent you. 



APPENDIX III. 



Notes Explanatory of the Schedules. 

 By E. Sidney Hartland, F.S.A., Secretary of the Committee. 



The object of the Committee is to obtain a collection of authentic 

 information relative to the population of the British Islands, with a view 

 to determine as far as possible the racial elements of which it is composed. 

 The high interest of the inquiry for all archseologists need not be here 

 insisted on. A satisfactory solution of the problems involved will mean 

 the re-writing of much of our early history ; and even if we can only gain 

 a partial insight into the real facts it will enable us to correct or to con- 

 firm many of the guesses in which historians have indulged upon data of 

 a very meagre and often delusive character. 



The methods it is proposed to adopt have regard to the physical 

 peculiarities of the inhabitants, their mental idiosyncrasies, the material 

 remains of their ancient culture, and their external history. In modern 

 times great movements of population have taken place, the developments 

 of industry and commerce have brought together into large centres 

 natives of all parts of the country, and even foreigners, and thereby 

 caused the mingling of many elements previously disparate. These have 

 enormously complicated the difficulties of the inquiry. They have 

 rendered many districts unsuitable for every purpose except the record of 

 material remains. Scattered up and down the country, however, there 

 are hamlets and retired places where the population has remained 

 stationary and affected but little by the currents that have obliterated 

 their neighbours' landmarks. To such districts as these it is proposed to 

 direct attention. Where families have dwelt in the same village from 

 father to son as far back as their ancestry can be traced, where the modes 

 of life have diverged the least from those of ancient days, where pastoral 

 and agricultural occupations have been the mainstay of a scanty folk 

 from time immemorial, where custom and prejudice and superstition have 

 held men bound in chains which all the restlessness of the nineteenth 

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