X REPORT — 1898. 



Page 

 III.— The Social Organisation of the Haida. By Franz Boas 648 



IV. — Linn^uistics. By Feanz Boas 6.54 



V. — Summary of tlie "Work of the Committee in Bri*ish Columbia. 



By Franz Boas 667 



Appendix — Index to Reports, I V.-XII 684 



Torres Straits Anthropological Expedition. — Interim Report of the Committee, 

 consistiug of Sir W. Turner (Chairman), Professor A. C. Habdon (Secre- 

 tary), Professor M. Foster, Dr. J. Scott-Keltie, Professor L. C. Miall, 

 and Professor Marshall Ward, appointed- to investigate the Anthropology 

 and Natural History of Torres Straits 688 



Silchester Excavation. — Report of the Committee, consisting of Mr. A. J. 

 Evans (Chairman), Mr. John L. Myers (Secretary), and Mr. E. W. Bra- 

 brook, appointed to co-operate with the Silchester Excavation Fund Com- 

 mittee in their Explorations 689 



Mental and Physical Deviations from the Normal among Children in Public 

 Elementary and other Schools. — Report of the Committee, consisting of 

 Sir DoTTGLAS Galton (Chairman), Dr. Francis Waenee (Secretary), Mr. 



E. W. Beabeook, Dr. J. G. Gaeson, and Mr. E. White Wallis. (Report 

 drawn up by the Secretary.) 691 



Appendix. — Table showing co-relations of conditions of defect among 

 1,120 children, subnormal in constitution, mental, or physical 692 



The Lake Village at Glastonbury.— Third Report of the Committee, consist- 

 ing of Dr. R. MuNEO (Chairman), Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, Sir John 

 Evans, General Pitt-Rivers, Mr. A. J. Evans, and Mr. A. Bulleid 

 (Secretary). (Drawn up by the Secretary.) . 694 



An Ethnological Survey of Canada. — Second Report of the Committee, consist- 

 ing of Dr. G. M. Dawson (Chairman and Secretary), Professor D. P. Pen- 

 hallow (Vice-Chairman), Mr. E. W. Beabeook, Professor A. C. Haddon, 

 Mr. E. S. Hartland, Sir John G. Bourinot, Abbe Cuoq, Mr. B. Sulte, 

 Abbe Tanguay, Mr C. Hill-Tout, Mr. David Boyle. Rev. Dr. Scadding, 

 Rev. Dr. J. Maclean, Dr. Meeee Beauchemin, Rev. Dr. G. Patterson, 

 Mr. C. N. Bell, Hon. G. W. Ross, Professor .1. Mavor, and Mr. A. F. 

 Hunter 



Appendix I.— Haida Stories and Beliefs. By C. Hill-Tout 700 



„ II. — Customs and Habits of Earliest Settlers of Canada. 



By Benjamin Sulte 709 



Ethnographical Survey of the United Kingdom.— Sixth Report of the Com- 

 mittee, consisting of Mr. E. W. Brabrook (Chairman), Dr. Francis 

 Galton, Dr. J. G. Garson, Dr. A. 0. Haddon, Dr. Joseph Anderson, 

 Mr. J. RoMiLLT Allen, Dr. J. Beddoe, Mr. W. Crooke, Professor D. J. 

 Cunningham, Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, Mr. Arthur J. Evans, Mr. 



F. G. Hilton Price, Sir H. Howortii, Professor R. Meldola, General 

 PiTX-RivEES, Mr. E. G. Ravenstein, and Mr. E. Sidney Hartland 

 (Secretary). (Drawn up by the Secretary.) 712 



Functional Activity of Nerve Cells. — Second Report of the Committee, consist- 

 ing of Dr. VV. H. Gaskell (Chairman), Professors Buedon Sanderson, 

 M. Foster, E. A. Schafer, J. G. McKendrick, W. D. Halliburton, 

 J. B. Haycraft, F. Gotch, 0. S. Sherrington, and A. B. Macallum, 

 Dr. J. N. Langley, Dr. G. Mann, and Dr. A. Waller (Secretary), 

 appointed to investigate the changes which nre associated with the Func- 

 tional Activity of Nerve Cells and their Peripheral Extensions 714 



