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everything connected with these people. It may confidently be stated 

 that no actually observed fact respecting them is without some definite 



value. 



' With slight verbal changes the same main heads of investigation as 

 have been already cited appear to be applicable to the native races ; but, 

 in addition, many other special lines of inquiry might be followed, such 

 as the displacement of native tribes by the whites, the coalescence of 

 diminished tribal communities in later years, and the absorption of the 

 weaker of these by the stronger. Photographic records of all kinds will 

 ill connection with the native races possess great importance. 



' The above suggestions of a general and preliminary kind are ofiered 

 , to the members of the Committee with the object of eliciting an expres- 

 sion of opinion, and further and more detailed plans such as may appear 

 to be best for the objects in view. As no money grant is at the disposal 

 of the Committee, the work must in the meantime, at least, be carried on 

 entirely by the efforts of volunteers ; but some means may, it is hoped, 

 be found of obtaining a small fund applicable to the purposes of the 

 Committee. 



' In the meantime it is hoped that every member of the Committee 

 will assist with advice in regard to the best organisation, not only for the 

 collection, but also in -respect to the collation and eventual publication of 

 the facts. 



' Yours faithfully, 



(Signed) 'George M. Dawson.' 



The Committee have been so fortunate as to obtain from Dr. Franz 

 Boas and Mr. B. Suite respectively the subjoined valuable contributions 

 in the line of its investigations. 'The Growth of Toronto Children,' 

 by Franz Boas ; ' Origin of the French Canadians,' by B. Suite. The first 

 constitutes an interesting example of the importance attaching to accurate 

 physical measurements. The second explains the nature of the founda- 

 tions upon which further study of the French element of the Canadian 

 population must rest. 



APPENDIX I. 



The Growth of Toronto Children. By Franz Boas. 



In 1891, when active preparations for the World's Columbian Expo- 

 sition were being made. Professor F. W. Putnam, director of the Peabody 

 Museum of American Archaeology and Ethnography, and then chief of the 

 Department of Anthropology of the Exposition, placed me in charge of 

 the Section of Physical Anthropology. At an early time during the 

 preparation of the exhibits we agreed upon a plan to represent as fully 

 as possible the growth and the development of American children. 

 Valuable material was available, but it seemed desirable to extend the 

 investigations over regions in which heretofore no observations had been 

 collected. I submitted our plans to Mr. James Hughes, superintendent 

 of public schools in Toronto, Ont., and to Professor Earl Barnes, of 

 Leland Stanford, Jr., University. Through the interest taken by these 

 gentlemen I have been enabled to obtain series of measurements of the 

 school children of Toronto and of Oakland, Cal. The former series 

 was taken under the supervision of Dr. Alexander F. Chamberlain ; the 



