REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. lxxxix 
APPENDIX TO THE REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
Bureau of Ethnology for Greater Britain 
Foreign Office: May 24, 1899. 
S1r,—I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you the annexed 
correspondence which has passed between this Department and the British Associa- 
tion for the Advancement of Science, respecting the establishment of a Bureau of 
Ethnology for Greater Britain in connection with the British Museum, and the desire 
of the Association to obtain from Her Majesty’s Officers in the various Protectorates 
under the administration of the Foreign Office information of an ethnological 
character with respect to the numerous uncivilised races with whom they come in 
contact. 
Lord Salisbury is of opinion that Her Majesty’s Officers should be encouraged to 
furnish information desired by the Bureau, so far as their duties will allow of their 
doing so, and I am to request you to inform Officers under your administration 
accordingly. 
All reports which may be drawn up in answer to questions forwarded by the 
Bureau should be forwarded under flying seal through the Foreign Office. 
I am, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, 
(Signed) MARTIN GOSSELIN, 
H.M.’s Commissioners in the Uganda and Hast and 
Central Africa Protectorates, 
H.M,’s Consul-General in the Somali Coast Pro- 
tectorate. 
Foreign Office: May 24, 1899. 
S1z,—I am directed by the Marquess of Salisbury to transmit to you for your 
information, and for such effect as you may be able to give to the instructions ccn- 
tained in it, a copy of a despatch which has been addressed to Her Majesty’s Com- 
missioners in the Uganda, and East and Central Africa Protectorates, and Her 
Majesty’s Consul-General in the Somali Coast Protectorate, on the subject of pro- 
curing information for the Bureau of Ethnology which is about to be established in 
connection with the British Museum. 
I am, sir, your most obedient, humble servant, 
(Signed) MARTIN GOSSELIN. 
H,M.’s Acting Agent at Zanzibar. 
H.M.’s Consul at Brunei. 
INcLOSURE 1, 
Letter from the President of the British Association to the Marquess 
of Salisbury :— 
Burlington House: March 30, 1599. 
My Lorp,—I have the honour to inform you that a proposal to establish a Bureau 
of Ethnology for Greater Britain has been discussed at several recent meetings of the 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, and that the Council of the 
Association were subsequently requested to consider the possibility of establishing 
such a Bureau. 
The Council appointed a Committee to consider the proposal, and having adopted 
the report of the Committee, requested the Trustees of the British Museum to allow 
the proposed Bureau to be established in connection with that Institution. The 
Trustees have expressed their willingness to undertake the working of the Bureau, 
oud the necessary space for its establishment has now been provided at Blooms- 
ury. 
In forwarding to your Lordship copies of the report of the Committee appointed 
by the Council, I would desire to call special attention to the following paragraph 
