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In the event, therefore, of the scheme meeting with the approval of Lord 
Salisbury I would venture to ask his lordship to be good enough to express this 
approval in such terms that the letter can be used in opening the correspondence 
with the agents of the Foreign Office. 
I am, sir, your obedient servant, 
(Signed) WILLIAM CROOKES, President. 
The Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. 
Inctosure 5. 
Letter from Foreign Office to the British Association, May 24, 1899 :— 
Foreign Office, May 24, 1899. 
S1r,—With reference to your letter of the 3rd instant, I am directed by the Mar- 
quess of Salisbury to transmit to you for your information, copies of despatches which 
have been addressed to Her Majesty’s Commissioners in the Uganda and East and 
Central Africa Protectorates, Her Majesty’s Consul-General in the Somali Coast 
Protectorate, Her Majesty’s Acting Agent at Zanzibar, and Her Majesty’s Consul at 
Brunei, on the subject of procuring 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. 
The President of the British Association for the 
Advancement of Science, Burlington House, W. 
