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already accomplished much good work among the coast tribes of Indians, 

 and who proposes to continue his studies during the present summer ; to 

 Mr. A. F. Hunter, of Barrie, Ontario, who has associated with him Dr. F. 

 Tracey, of Toronto, and to Dr. A. C. Hebbert, of Montreal, who proposes 

 to make liberal use of the material to be found in the various military 

 organisations of the city, public institutions, and also, probably, the 

 students of the universities. 



The Committee has also purchased a camera specially adapted to its 

 work in the field. This has been placed in the hands of Mr. Hill-Tout, 

 who hopes to secure a large number of negatives during the pi-esent 

 summer. These negatives remain the property of the Committee. 



Communication with the Committee appointed by the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science for an Ethnographic Survey 

 of the United States has been opened through its chairman. Dr. Franz 

 Boas, and it is hoped that such co-operation may be secured as will lead 

 to results of mutual advantage. 



In pursuance of a resolution of the Committee at the meeting of 

 August 20 in Toronto, communications were opened with the several 

 provincial governments of Canada for the purpose of obtaining, if possible, 

 grants in aid of photographic and other registration involved in the work 

 of the Committee. Nothing has, however, so far resulted from the com- 

 munications referred to in the Avay of material aid, although some of the 

 replies received indicate the possibility that such aid may be forthcoming 

 in the future. 



Mr. David Boyle, having been commissioned by the Government of 

 Ontario to obtain photographs of some of the Indians of the province in 

 ccmnection with his investigations of Iroquois religious rites, has, however 

 expressed his intention of conducting this work as far as possible in con- 

 formity with the requirements of the Committee's schedule. 



At the meeting above referred to a resolution was also passed concern- 

 ing the desirability of taking steps for the preservation of the Serpent 

 3Iound in Otonabee township, Ontario ; and in October last letters were 

 addressed on the subject to the clerk of the township and to the clerk of 

 Peterborough County Council . At a later date the former replied that 

 his Council considered the work of preserving the mound a provincial one, 

 while the latter stated that the County Council had sent a memorial to 

 tlie Ontario Government on the subject. Further representations have 

 since been made to the Government, and it is probable that the mound 

 may be acquired next year. 



Proceeding upon the lines of investigation adopted by Mr. B. Suite in 

 regard to the province of Quebec, a preliminary account of which was 

 appended to the last report, a similar inquiry has been undertaken by 

 Mr. A. F. Hunter in regard to the composition of the population of the 

 several counties of the province of Ontario. This is not as yet sufficiently 

 complete for publication, but some idea of its character, and the great 

 interest likely to attach to such a record of the foundation of the people 

 of this province, consisting of the most varied elements, may be gatJiered 

 from the subjoined preliminary analyses referring to two counties only 

 out of the forty-two for which partial information has already been 

 obtained. These are quoted with Mr. Hunter's permission, and with the 

 object, largely, of inducing a similar analysis of the equally interesting 

 elements brought together in the peopling of New Brunswick, Nova 

 Scotia, and Prince Edwai-d Island. 



