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limitations than by reference to the brief code of directions drawn up for 

 the Committee by Professor Skeat and contained in the Committee's 

 pamphlet. 



22. With regard to monuments and other remains of ancient culture, 

 the work of the Committee has been in some places anticipated, and in 

 others is being carried on concurrently by the Archaeological Survey set on 

 foot by the Society of Antiquaries, and by that undertaken by the 

 Cambrian Archreological Society. Where such survey has not been com- 

 menced, the Committee suggests that the method adopted by the Society 

 of Antiquaries should be followed. 



23. With regard to the historical evidences of continuity of race, 

 where they exist in any publication, it will only be necessary to give 

 a reference to that publication ; but there will be great value in a full 

 record of any that exist only in unpublished sources of information. 



24. The duty which is entrusted to this Committee, and which is 

 undei'taken by those local bodies that have kindly interested themselves 

 in its work, is necessarily so laborious, that the Committee is anxious that 

 such local bodies should not burden themselves with any labour that can 

 be avoided in the discharge of it. 



2-5. The Committee would be glad if this intimation should have the 

 effect of inducing other local bodies, that may possibly have been deterred 

 from offering help by a feeling that the requirements of the Committee 

 involve greater labour than such bodies are prepared to devote to the 

 matter, to reconsider the position and undertake the essential portion of 

 the work in the respective localities. 



26. The Committee is prepared to provide any such local body and 

 competent individual observers in any district with the necessary instru- 

 ments for the physical measurements by way of loan, and with a proper 

 equipment of forms of return, &c. 



27. The whole of the grant appropriated to the Committee at the 

 Liverpool meeting has not been expended, and the Committee asks to be 

 reappointed and permitted to use the unexpended portion, with a further 

 grant, so as to have placed at its disposal the sum of 50^. in all during the 

 coming year. 



28. A small amount of the sum allotted to Dr. Gregor for his 

 expenses having been returned to the Committee unexpended has been 

 surrendered to the Association. 



29. The Committee has been glad to observe the commencement in 

 Switzerland of an ethnographic survey under the management of the Swiss 

 Folklore Society, upon lines very similar to those of this Committee. 



30. In addition to the appendices already referred to, the following 

 reports and tables are appended : — 



A report by the Cambridge Committee, including statistics on the 

 Physical Chai-acters of the inhabitants of Barley, Hertfordshire, and the 

 villages of Barrington and Foxton, Cambridgeshire ; Tables of Physical 

 Observations taken at Aberdeen, in Banffshire, and in the Island of 

 Lewis ; Tables of Physical Observations taken at Cleckheaton, York- 

 shire ; and a report by the Irish Committee relating to the valuable 

 observations taken by Dr. C. Pv.. Browne on Clare Island and Inishturk, 

 CO. Mayo. For all of these the Committee takes this opportunity of 

 rendei'ing its best thanks to the various gentlemen whose names appear 

 in the appendices in question, and who have devoted much time and 

 care to the collection and preparation of the statistics. 



