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Blocks Committee, he wished to point out how much work had been done 
in that department by members of the Glacialists’ Association. 
Secrion H. 
Mr. Sidney Hartland wished to ask for the co-operation of the local 
societies in the work of the Ethnographical Survey Committee. Consider- 
able progress had been made in the work of the Committee since he had 
asked their aid at Ipswich last year. Many measurements of the natives 
of Galloway had been taken by Dr. Macgregor. During the present 
century the movements of our population had been immensely greater 
than in previous centuries. Still there were places where there had been 
little change in that respect. As it was the object of the Committee to 
acquire a knowledge of the distinguishing characteristics of the various 
races of British Isles, it was important that the measurements, &c., of 
individuals in any district should be those of persons whose families had 
lived there during a considerable period. Dr. Macgregor had accordingly 
been careful to select persons whose pedigrees could be traced back a 
century or more. He had also collected much of the folklore of the 
district. There was no department in which it was more desirable to 
have speedy information than that of folklore. Much had been done 
with regard to the dialects of the different counties of England by the 
publication of the English Dialect Dictionary, but in Scotland and Ireland 
there was still much work to be done both in dialect and in folklore. 
Education, facilities for railway travelling, and industrial migrations were 
rapidly destroying local customs, dialects, and traditions, so that it was 
more important that speedy information about them should be obtained 
than that there should be an immediate supply of physical measurements. 
The historic and prehistoric monuments of a locality should also be noted. 
Mr. Hartland concluded by remarking that he would be glad to furnish 
any delegates interested in the subject with copies of the Ethnographical 
Committee’s Schedules, or with any help in his power. 
Mr. John Gray, Buchan Field Club, said that in his district they had 
begun to note the physical characteristics of the inhabitants by placing 
themselves at the entrance to a field where some sports were being held, 
and observing the colour of the eyes and hair, the contour of the nose, 
and other characteristics of people entering the field. They also measured 
about 200 persons in the grounds, and obtained some very interesting 
results. In addition they had obtained measurements, &c., of almost all 
the school children of the district. 
The Chairman remarked that Mr. Gray’s Society was obtaining 
excellent results, and giving an example of the work required. As the 
information asked for by the Ethnographic Survey Committee was of so 
many different kinds, it appeared to him that the formation of sub- 
committees by the local societies would greatly expedite the work. One 
sub-committee might confine itself to physical measurements, another to 
dialect and folklore, a third to ancient monuments, and so on. Then 
photographers were needed for illustrations of people and monuments. 
And persons with a turn for history might consider the historical evidence 
of continuity of race. Investigations of this kind would at once enrich 
the Transactions of a local society, and help the work of the British 
Association. 
The meeting then adjourned. 
