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the value of folklore as ethnological data. The recommendations of Mr. 
Gomme will be found to be valuable when the stage arrives at which it is 
practicable and necessary to compare the collections made by the Com- 
mittee in different localities. 
12. The Committee have learned with much gratification from Mr. 
Griffith that the establishment of similar committees for the Dominion of 
Canada and the United States of America, working on the same lines as 
this Committee, is in contemplation. 
13. The Committee look upon these several results of their work as 
encouraging, and ask to be reappointed for the purpose of continuing it. 
They also ask for a further grant of 50/., having wholly expended the 
sum granted for the present year. 
APPENDIX I. 
The Ethnographical Survey of Ireland.—Report of the Committee, con- 
_ sisting of Dr. C. R. Browne, Professor D. J. Cunnincuam, Dr. 8. 
Havueuton, Professor E. Percevat Wricut, and Professor A. C. 
Happon (Secretary). (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 
Last year the Royal Irish Academy published! a. Report by Dr. C. R. 
Browne on ‘The Ethnography of the Mullet, Inishkea Islands, and 
Portacloy, co. Mayo,’ illustrated by three plates of photographs. This is 
the third Report issued by the Dublin Ethnographic Committee, and the 
investigation was carried out on the same lines as previously —that is, it 
embraces the physiography of the district, anthropography (physical 
characters and statistics, vital statistics—personal and economic, phy- 
siology, folk-names) ; sociology (occupations, customs, food, clothing, 
dwellings, and transport) ; folklore, archeology (survivals and antiqui- 
ties) ; history, &c. The district investigated is a very wild and remote 
part of Ireland, and, in spite of great difficulties, Dr. Browne has 
produced a valuable and interesting memoir. A full series of observa- 
tions were taken on sixty-two adult males, and the eye and hair colours 
of 494 individuals were recorded. The average stature of the men is 
1-725 m. (about 5 ft. 8 in.) ; they are stoutly built and broad-shouldered. 
Over 80 per cent. of the adults have brown or dark hair, and about the 
same number have light eyes; but the eyes of the women run darker 
than those of the men. The cephalic index of the men is mainly (39) 
mesaticephalic, there being 20 brachycephals and only 3 dolichocephals ; 
if two units are deducted (as is often done to compare with cranial 
indices), the numbers are 41 mesati-, 10 brachy-, and 11 dolicho-cephals. 
The mean cephalic index is 79:4, the facial is 111-9, and the nasal 64. 
Dr. Browne analyses the differences of the people from the various 
districts. Thus the North Inishkea and the Portacloy are the tallest 
(ay. 1727 m.=5 ft. 8 in.) ; but the former have the shortest arms, the 
proportion of span to height being 102:45; while at Portacloy it is 
105-65, and intermediate elsewhere. The nigrescence index is as follows : 
Tnishkea Islands 10°5, Mullet 62-3, Portacloy 77-5 ; thus the islands show 
® greater proportion of light hair. There is a greater tendency to brachy- 
cephalism in South Inishkea and Portacloy, and none of these men were 
1 Proceedings (3), vol. iii. pp. 587-649. 
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