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is deferred to a future Report. The Committee hope also, if reappointed, 
in future Reports to supply bibliographical information. 
4. The Committee have provided, for the use of observers of the 
physical characters of the people, a number of the following instruments 
graduated in millimetres :-— 
1. A two-metre tape. 
2, A pair of folding callipers. 
3. A folding square. 
4, A small set-square. 
Sets of these have been supplied to applicants in various parts of the 
country, who will communicate to the Committee the measurements they 
take. Others are still available for use by competent observers who may 
desire to borrow them, and those at present in circulation will be reissued 
as soon as returned. Several applications were made in consequence of 
an announcement on the matter inserted in the ‘ Academy,’ ‘ Athenzeum,’ 
and ‘Nature’ by the courtcsy of the editors of those journals. 
5. The Committee have to thank the Rev. Fletcher Moss, of Didsbury, 
for a number of measurements and other observations. 
6. The Committee are much indebted to Mr. G. Paul for undertaking 
to organise, through communications to the local papers circulating in 
Nidderdale, and communications with the local Naturalists’ Club, a survey 
of that district, the results of which the Committee hope to receive in due 
course. 
7. The Buchan Field Club has published a series of observations made 
by Mr. John Gray, B.Sc., and Mr. Tocher, secretary of the club, upon 
the anthropological characters of the people of East Aberdeenshire. It is 
proceeding with the work upon the lines laid down by this Committee. 
8. The Irish Ethnographic Committee, consisting of Professors Cun- 
ningham and Haddon, members of this Committee, and Professors Haugh- 
ton and Wright, is engaged in tabulating the results of the measurements 
of over 500 individuals taken during the last four years in the Anthro- 
pometric Laboratory of Trinity College, Dublin. It is intended to 
tabulate the statistics with reference to ethnography, to the occupation 
of the subjects, and to the success of the students. For the first of these 
the subjects will be grouped geographically, according to the districts 
from which their parents come, in probably a dozen groups. Dr. C. R. 
Browne, who co-operates with this Committee, has undertaken the work 
of tabulating the observations and calculating the indices. A Report 
from the Committee is appended. 
9. The Cambridge Ethnographic Survey Committee have also com- 
menced operations. They are at present investigating the villages of 
Barrington and Foxton, but as yet there are no results available for this 
Report. 
70. The Committee have to thank the Congress of Archeological 
Societies in union with the Society of Antiquaries of London for printing 
and circulating among their members a large number of this Committee’s 
code of instructions, with Mr. Hartland’s explanatory paper appended 
thereto. At the Canterbury Meeting of the Royal Archeological Insti- 
tute a discussion has taken place on the sabject of an ethnographical 
survey of Kent. 
11. Appended to this Report is an important communication made to 
this Committee by Mr. Laurence Gomme, on the method of determining 
