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ON THE ETHNOGRAPHICAL SURVEY OF THE UNITED KiNGDOoM. 495 
Under the third head, the policy of the Committee has been :— 
1. To establish Sub-committees in various parts, and secure the co- 
operation of local societies in forming such Committees and otherwise. 
2. To obtain the services of volunteer individual observers. 
The Committee feel that their best thanks are due to the societies and 
persons by whom they have been favoured with information ; but they 
are also of opinion that for the future conduct of the survey, it will not 
be sufficient to rely upon such assistance, however generously bestowed. 
To ensure absolute uniformity in the methods of collecting information, 
upon which the usefulness of the information for the purposes of com- 
parison almost entirely depends, it is essential that one or more persons 
should be wholly engaged upon the work. 
There are two methods by which this can be done :— 
1. The entrusting to the Committee of the necessary means. 
2. The transfer of the work to another body possessing the necessary 
means, 
Should the first course approve itself to the Section and to the Associa- 
tion, it would be practicable, by a comparatively small expenditure, for 
the Association itself (through the present or some other Committee) to 
proceed with a work of great interest and value, on the lines which have 
been exemplified by Dr. Gregor’s model collections, and by the excellent 
publications of Dr. Browne and Professor Haddon relating to certain com- 
munities in Ireland, as it would not be difficult to find competent persons 
if sufficient remuneration were assured to them to justify giving their 
whole time to the work. 
The circumstance which induces the Committee to lean rather to the 
second course is that the Ethnographic Bureau, which has been so long an 
object of desire to anthropologists, has now been established under the 
auspices of the British Museum ; and the Committee cannot but think 
that that Bureau might well include the British Islands within the scope 
of its functions. 
In the meantime they suggest that the reports and observations now 
in their hands might, where not returned to the writers, be distributed 
among the representatives on their body of the several societies interested, 
who will be able to proceed with the work of digesting them, and to 
publish such of them as contain matters suitable for publication in full. 
The five sets of measuring instruments in their possession will be returned 
_to the Association. 
Silchester Hxcavation.—Report of the Committee, consisting of My. 
A. J. Evans (Chairman), Mr. Joan L. Myres (Secretary), and 
Mr. EK. W. Brasrook, appointed to co-operate with the Silchester 
Excavation Fund Committee in their Hxcavations. 
THE excavations at Silchester in 1898 were begun on May 2 and con. 
tinued, with the usual interval during the harvest, until November 26, 
