1921,] The Eighth Indian Science Congress cexxxi 
hundred rupees for payment of a monthly allowance of three 
hundred rupees to the officer to be placed in charge of the 
Bureau, and Mahamahopadhyaya Pandit Hara Prasad Shastri 
was selected for the purpose. The utility and importance of 
Anthropology as ever. 
r provinces in India have unfortunately much the 
same story to tell. Thus, in Punjab, Denzil Ibbetson, in the 
preface to his Report on the Punjab Census of 1881, drew 
attention to “ the extraordinary interest of the material which 
lies in such abundance ready to the hand of all Indian officials, 
and which would, if collected and recorded, be of such immense 
value to students of sociology.” And, in 1883, the ‘* Punjab 
Notes and Queries,” to which I have incidentally referred, was 
started under the editorship of Captain Temple with a similar 
object as the later Ethnographic Supplement to the Journal 
of the Bengal Asiatic Society, but within five years, in 1887, 
became similarly defunct. In the North Western Provinces, 
a similar periodical started in 1891 under the editorship of the 
distinguished Anthropologist Dr. William Crooke, then a mem- 
er of the Indian Civil Service, under the title of * North 
really good papers, the number of its members who like 
Mr. Saldanha or Mr. Modi, take an enthusiastic part in the So- 
ciety’s work, appears to be disappointingly small, and solid 
contributions by the society to our stock of anthropological 
knowledge have thus been necessarily scanty. — 
The Mythic Society of Bangalore, started in 1909, and the 
Bihar and Orissa Research Society, started in 1915, have each 
tried to contribute its humble mite to Anthropological research 
President and founder of the Bihar and Orissa Research Society, 
in his last annual Presidential Address on the 23rd December, 
1¥20, lamenting,—‘‘ It is much to be regretted that notwith- 
standing the ample ethnological material available in all direc- 
