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both Indians and Europeans, they should be conducted with reference 

 to— 



' (a) Indian communities. 



'(1) Displacement of tribes from their original locations through the 

 intervention of Europeans. 



' (2) The absorption of tribal remnants into existing tribes. 

 ' (3) The infusion of French or other European blood. 



' (b) European communities or families. 



' (1) The precise European locality whence they originated. 



* (2) The American locality of most continuous residence and of first 

 settlement. 



' (3) The environment at date of investigation. 



' For the treatment of folklore as ethnological data, I do not think we 

 can do better than adopt methods suggested by Mr. Gomme in his very 

 valuable paper as embodied in the Report on Ethnographical Survey, 

 Oreat Britain (" B.A. Report," 1896, Section H, p. 626, &c.). 



' The great extent of country to be dealt witla and the great length of 

 time required to reach anything of the nature of complete results would 

 seem to make it desirable that we proceed in the most systematic manner. 

 The results might therefore be collated by — 



"(1) Families or tribes. 



* (2) Parishes. 



' (3) Towns or villages. 



* (4) Provinces and, as far as possible, a given locality should be 

 studied exhaustively before another is undertaken.' 



After some consultation with the members of the Committee who 

 could most easily be communicated with, the following letter was ad- 

 dressed to the Committee generally : — 



' Sir, — You have doubtless received some time ago from Mr. G. 

 'Griffith, Assistant General Secretary of the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science, a notification of your nomination as a member 

 of the committee to organise an ethnological survey of Canada. It is 

 hoped that you will be willing to take an active part in this important 

 work, and, although it may not be possible to do much more than establish 

 some plan of operations before the date of the forthcoming meeting of the 

 Association in Toronto in August next, that you will now assist and 

 advise in the perfecting of such plan. 



'The project is based upon that being carried out by another com- 

 »nittee of the Association nominated some years ago to " organise an 

 ■ethnographical survey of the United Kingdom." This committee has 

 ■already made several valuable and interesting reports, and has enlisted 

 various local scientific societies and a number of individuals in the work. 



' The chief objects of investigation in the United Kingdom are set out 

 as follows : — 



* (1) Physical type of the inhabitants. 

 ' (2) Current traditions and beliefs ; 



' (3) Peculiarities of dialect ; 



' (4) Monuments and other remains of ancient culture ; and 



' (5) Historical evidences as to continuity of race. 



' It has been sought to discover, in the first place, the most suitable 



