1921.] The Eighth Indian Science Congress. cexNix 
A. Campbell published in the pages of the Society’s Journal an 
amount of information regarding the tribes of Nepal, Sikkim 
and other Sub- Himalayan tracts ; writers like Hodgson, Balfour, 
Lieutenant-Colonel Showers and others contributed articles in 
the Journal regarding the tribes of Central India ; and inves- 
tigators like Hodgson, Ward, Ross and others published in the 
Journal the earliest accounts of the tribes of Southern India. 
Another more popular journal—the Calcutta Review— 
which was started in Calcutta under European Editorship in the 
the majority of writers on ethnographical subjects were 
Europeans. *Thus, out of fifty-three articles on Ethnology and 
Indian contributors. hus out of over two hundred and sixty 
such articles and notes which appeared in the Indian Antiquary 
from 1872 to 1883, hardly more than a dozen articles were 
contributed by Indian writers. 
Since 1883, although we have a slightly better account to 
give of ourselves, Indian writers on anthropological subjects 
still remain in a hopeless minority. Thus, out of about two 
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Society’s Journal during this second period. — This is partly 
due to the action of Government which from time to time felt 
lated to the Provincial Governments and Administrations a 
scheme prepared by Risley for promoting the systematic study 
of ethnography in India, and it was suggested that societies 
formed for scientific enquiries might undertake to collate and 
