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from the remains of their workmanship wliat sort of people his foi'bears were, 

 and ascertain what superstitions and beliefsthey have transmitted to liim.' 



5. In the business of forming a list of places in the United Kingdom 

 which appear specially to deserve ethnographic study, the Committee 

 sought the assistance of a great number of persons possessed of local 

 knowledge, and the substance of the correspondence is digested in the first 

 and second reports of the Committee. They contain a large amount of 

 interesting local information, and specify the names of more than 300 

 places as suitable for the survey. 



6. It became the duty of the Committee, as a next step, to condense 

 into a small and convenient pamphlet the instructions necessary to enable 

 observers to conduct the survey on a definite and uniform plan. The 

 volume of ' Notes and Queries on Anthropology,' prepared by another 

 Committee of the British Association ; the ' Handbook of Folklore, 

 published by the Folklore Society ; the directions for tiie Archseological 

 Survey, formulated by the Society of Antiquaries ; and other publications, 

 afforded ample material for this, but they were too voluminous for 

 general use. The Committee has succeeded in reducing the necessary 

 hints and instructions into a pamphlet of twelve pages, which has been 

 found by experience sufficiently to indicate what is required. 



7. Individual members of the Committee have rendered it excellent 

 service by contributions to the study of the branches of the subject, which 

 have been printed in appendices to its reports, viz., Mr. E. Sidney Hart- 

 land, the secretary, in his notes explanatory of the schedules, appended to 

 the third report ; and Mr. Laurence Gomme, in his paper on determining 

 the value of folklore as ethnological data, appended to the fourth report. 



8. The foundation having thus been laid, the Committee proceeded to 

 take observations in detail, some of which have been published in the 

 Reports, others in the transactions of local and other Societies, and others 

 are reserved for examination and digest when further information has 

 been obtained. 



9. The following is a brief summary of the returns actually received 

 from various parts of the United Kingdom up to the date of the Com- 

 mittee's last Report : — 



England. — Suffolk (Miss Layard and others) ; Hertfordshire (Professor 

 Haddon) ; Cambridgeshire (Professor Haddon) ; Lancashire (Rev. F. 

 Moss) ; Yorkshire (Dr. E. Colley and others). 



Wales. — Pembrokeshire (Mr. H. Owen and Mr. E. Laws). 



Scotland. — Galloway (Dr. Gregor) ; Aberdeen (Mr. Gray). 



Ireland. — The Aran Islands (Professor Haddon and Dr. Browne) ; 

 Dublin (Dr. Browne) ; Inishbofin and Inishshark, co. Galway (Dr. 

 Browne) ; Mayo (Dr. Browne). 



10. A preliminary report on folklore in Scotland, by the Rev. Dr. 

 Walter Gregor, formed Appendix III. to the Committee's fourth Report. 

 Dr. Gregor had undertaken, at the request of the Committee, to make a 

 special -visit to certain districts of Scotland for the purpose of the survey. 

 The remainder of his collections of folklore (items 168 to 734) are 

 appended to this Report, and also an abstract of his measurements of 

 the inhabitants. 



11. In arranging the folklore for the Appendix to the present Report, 

 all headings that could be dispensed with have been omitted, and where 



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