452 REPORT— 1897. 



Mhnographical Survey of the United Kingdom. — Fifth Report of the 

 Committee, consisting of Mr. E. W. Brabrook (Chairmaji), Mr. E. 

 Sidney Hartland (Secretary), Mr. Francis Galton, Dr. J. G-. 

 Garson, Professor A. C. Haddon, Dr. Joseph Anderson, Mr. J. 

 RoMiLLY Allen, Dr. J. Beddoe, Professor D. J. Cunningham, 

 Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, Mr. Arthur J. Evans, Mr. F. G. 

 Hilton Price, Sir H. Howorth, Professor R. Meldola, General 

 Pitt-Rivers, and Mr, E. G. Ravenstein. (Drawn up by the 

 Chairman.) 



ArPF.XDIX TAGE 



I. Further Repori on Folldore in Galloway, Scotland. By the late Kev. 



Walter Geegor, LL.D 456 



II. Report on the Ethnography of Wigtonshire and Kirhciidhrlght shire . . 500 



III. Report of the Cambridge Committee for the Ethnographical Survey of East 



Anglia ............. 503 



IV. Observations on Physical Characteristics of Children and Advlts taken at 



Aberdeen, in Banffshire, and in the Island of Lervis .... 50G 



V. Anthi'opometrie Notes on tJw Inhabitants of Cleckheaton, Torhshire . . 507 



VI. Report of the Committee on the Ethnographical Survey of Ireland . . 510 



1. This Committee was first appointed at the Edinburgh Meeting in 1892, 

 upon the joint recommendation of the Society of Antiquaries, the Anthro- 

 pological Institute, and the Folklore Society, for the purpose of organ- 

 ising local anthropological research, with the ultimate aim of establishing 

 an ethnographical survey of the United Kingdom. In the paper in which 

 the views of the three Societies were laid before the Association, it was 

 acknowledged that so large and ambitious a scheme must take many years 

 to perfect, and could only be proceeded with in detail. It was indeed 

 hinted that in other countries no power short of that of the State would 

 attempt to carry it out, and that iia time it might be right to ask for 

 State aid to do so in this country.' 



2. It will be convenient, on the present occasion, to recapitulate the 

 steps which the Committee has taken towards the fulfilment of the duty 

 entrusted to it. The first was to invite the co-operation of delegates of 

 the Royal Statistical Society, the Cambrian Archaeological Association, 

 the Royal Irish Academy, and the Dialect Society, in addition to those of 

 the Societies already represented on the Committee. This invitation was 

 readily acceded to, and the Committee has derived much help from the 

 learned gentlemen nominated by the several bodies in question. Sub- 

 Committees for Wales and for Ireland were formed. 



3. The Committee next proceeded to consider and define the plan of 

 its operations, which was to observe and record for certain typical villages, 

 parishes, or places, and their vicinity — (a) the physical types of the 

 inhabitants, (b) their current traditions and beliefs, (c) peculiarities of 

 dialect, (d) monuments and other remains of ancient culture, (e) historical 

 evidence as to continuity of race. 



4. Such simultaneous observation and record appeared to the Com- 

 mittee to be the best means by which the object desired — that of studying 

 the whole man and ascertaining what man is in any district— is to be 

 -obtained. It is necessary, not only to measure his skull and record his 

 physical characters, but also to look up the history of his descent, find out 



' Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxii. 262. 



