ON THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. 621 



Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom. — First Report of 

 the Committee, consisting of Mr. Francis Galton {Chairman)y 

 Dr. J. Gr. GrARSON, Professor A. C. Haddon, Dr. Joseph Anderson, 

 Mr. E. W. Brabrook {Secretary), Mr. J. Komilly Allen, Pro- 

 fessor D. J. Cunningham, Professor Boyd Dawkins, Professor 

 R. Meldola, Greneral Pitt-Rivers, and Mr. E. Cf. Ravenstein. 

 {Braivn up by the Secretary.) 



The Committee have requested the following gentlemen (not members 

 of the Association) to join them : — 



Dr. C. R. Browne (representing, with Professor Cunningham and 

 Professor Haddon, the Royal Irish Academy, and forming a sub-com- 

 mittee for Ireland). 



Mr. Edward Clodd, Mr. Gr. L. Gomme (President of the Folklore 

 Society), and Mr. Joseph Jacobs (representing the Folklore Society). 



Mr. E. Sidney Hartland, Mr. Edward Laws, the Ven. Archdeacon 

 Thomas, and Mr. S. W. Williams (representing, with Professor Boyd 

 Dawkins and Mr. Romilly Allen, the Cambrian Archaeological Association) , 

 and Professor John Rhys (forming a sub- committee for Wales). 



Mr. C. M. Kennedy, C.B. (representing, with Mr. Ravenstein, the 

 Royal Statistical Society). 



Mr. H. S. Milman and Mr. George Payne (representing, with General 

 Pitt-Rivers, the Society of Antiquaries), and a representative of the 

 Dialect Society. 



The Chairman and Secretary of the Committee, with Dr. Garson, 

 represent the Anthropological Institute. The Committee as thus formed 

 will consist of delegates of various learned bodies specially interested in 

 the work, with the addition of the Chairman of the Corresponding 

 Societies Committee. 



The Committee propose to record for certain typical villages, parishes, 

 or places, and their vicinity — - 



(1 ) Physical types of the inhabitants ; 



(2) Current traditions and beliefs ; 



(3) Peculiarities of dialect ; 



(4) ]\Ionuments and other remains of ancient culture ; and 



(5) Historical evidence as to continuity of race. 



As a first step the Committee desire to form a list of such places in 

 the United Kingdom as appear especially to deserve ethnographic study, 

 out of which a selection may afterwards be made for the survey. The 

 places which appear to them most suitable for entry on the list are such 

 as contain not less than 100 adults, the large majority of whose forefathers 

 have lived there so far back as can be traced, and of whom the desired 

 physical measurements, with photographs, might be obtained. 



The Committee addressed to persons whom they believed to be 

 eminently capable of affording help in this preliminary search a request 

 that they would do so by furnishing the names of such places, with a 

 brief account of their several characteristics, mentioning at the same time 

 the addresses of such of their residents as would be likely to support the 

 Committee in pursuing the inquiry. 



The editors of the 'Times,' 'Nature,' the 'Academy,' the 'Athenajum,' 



