INSTRUMENTS USED IN ENGINEERING LABORATORIES. 427 



them to make proposals for the supply of the gauges, and the Committee 

 hope that exact gauges will soon be obtainable from this source. 



In the meantime they ask to be reappointed, with a grant of 20^., 

 including the 10^. granted last year but not drawn. 



Linguistic and Anthropological Characteristics of the North Bravidian 

 and Kolarian Races. — Interim Report of the Committee, consisting 

 of Mr. E. Sidney Hartland (Chairman), Prof. A. C. Haddon, 

 Mr. J. L. Myres, and Mr. Hugh Raynbird, Jun. (Secretary). 



The Committee invited Mr. William Crooke, late of the Indian Civil 

 Service, the author of ' The Tribes and Castes of the North-West Pro- 

 vinces,' recently issued by the Indian Government, and other important 

 works on the populations of India, to join them. Mr. Hugh Raynbird, 

 jun., whose materials the Committee were appointed to examine, has, 

 however, been prevented by various engagements during the current year 

 from continuing and completing the laborious work of transcribing and 

 translating his collections. The Committee are therefore unable to make 

 any further report this year to the Association ; and they deem it un- 

 necessary to ask for reappointment at present. The grant has not been 

 drawn from the Treasurer. 



Mental and Physical Deviations from the Normal among Children in 

 Public Elementary and other Schools. — -Report of the Committee, 

 consisting of Sir Douglas Galton (Chairman), Dr. Francis 

 Warner (Secretary), Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Dr. J. G. Garson, 

 and Mr. E. White Wallis. (Report draivn up by the Secretary^ 



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Appendix. — Six Tables showing for each inqviri/ the childreti who apjjear to 

 require special care and training on mental or phijsical grormds. The 

 classes of childreti are jjresented in stcb-gronps arranged in age-groups and 

 aecordmg to the school standards . 431 



The Committee reappointed to act in conjunction with the Committee 

 appointed for the same purpose by the Congress of Hygiene and Demo- 

 graphy continued to act with that body in the study of conditions of 

 childhood. Last year we refez-red to a report ' published on 100,000 

 children examined. Following the circulation of that report, it was 

 decided to establish a society to continue inquiry and research. This has 

 been effected under the title of ' The Childhood Society : for the Scientific 

 Study of the Mental and Physical Conditions of Children,' of which the 

 Earl of Egerton and Tatton is president, and Sir Douglas Galton chair- 

 man. Tliis society now possesses all the i-ecords of inquiries conducted 

 since 1888, and we have received from them full means of access to these 

 valuable records and substantial assistance in preparing this report. 



' Keport on the Scientific Study of the Mental and Physical Conditions of Child- 

 hood, with particular reference to children of defective constitution, and with 

 recommendations as to education and training, based on 100,000 children examined. 

 Published at Parkes Museum, Margaret Street, London, W., the office of the 

 Childhood Society. 



