642 KEPOBT— 1893. 



'Dear Sir, — Referring to our previous circular letter, and to your 

 obliging oflFer of assistance in answer to it, we have now the pleasure to 

 enclose Forms of Schedule, which will, we trust, enable you to furnish 

 the desired information with respect to the district mentioned by your- 

 self. 



' You will observe that a separate page or pages of foolscap has been 

 prepared for each head of the inquiries, on which are questions and hints 

 prepared by a member of the Committee, who has undertaken to digest 

 the answers in respect of his particular branch, the lower portion of 

 each page, to which should be added as many separate sheets of foolscap 

 as may be required, being left for your answers. And that, with regard 

 to the physical observations, a single page of foolscap has been set aside 

 for the measurements of each individual to be observed. We shall be 

 obliged by a note from you, stating how many individuals you think you 

 will have the opportunity of photographing and measuring, in order that 

 we may supply you with the requisite number of copies of the form. 



' We are sure you will excuse our urging what may at first sight appear 

 to be trivial details, but which are in reality of great practical importance 

 to those who have to arrange and consult a large collection of commu- 

 nications from diiferent persons. These are that the communications 

 should all be written on foolscap paper, and that the writing should be 

 on one side only of the page, and should never run so near the margin 

 as to be an obstacle to future binding. 



' The Committee are satisfied that the value of the returns will be 

 much reduced if they do not give information under all the several heads. 

 If it should happen, therefore, that your own pursuits or means of infoi-- 

 mation do not enable you to fill up the whole of the forms desired, they 

 would take it as a particular favour if you could induce friends to supply 

 the missing details, and thus to render the information complete. 



' The Committee, in addressing you individually, wish to disclaim any 

 idea of interfering with the action of local Societies, from many of which, 

 on the contrary, they have reason to expect very valuable assistance. If 

 it should suit your convenience to present to your local Society an even 

 fuller account of your observations than may be necessary to comply 

 with the requirements of this Committee, such a course would be highly 

 desirable, and it is hoped that the local Societies will, on the other hand, 

 give to the observers in their several districts all the encouragement and 

 moral assistance that may be found practicable. — -We are, &c.' 



1. Physical Types of the Inhabitants. 



Photographic Portraits. 



Facial characteristics are conveniently recorded by means of photo- 

 graphs, taken in the three ways explained below. Amateurs in photo- 

 graphy are now so numerous that it is hoped the desired materials may 

 be abundantly supplied. At least twelve more or less beardless male 

 adults and twelve female adults should be photographed. It will add 

 much to the value of the portrait if these same persons have also been mea- 

 sured. The photographs should be mounted on cards, each card bearing 

 the name of the district, and a letter or number to distinguish the indi- 

 vidual portraits ; the cards to be secured together by a thread passing 



