1921.] The Highth Indian Science Congress. ecxly 
appreciation of the customs, habits, and mentality of the tribes 
nd castes that an officer or even a business man has to deal 
with, is ordinarily a sure guarantee for successful work. A few 
years ago, the Sudan Government marked its recognition of 
this truth by directing that every candidate for its services 
must go through a course of Anthropology at Oxford or 
Cambridge. And it is high time that in India a similar rule 
should be enforced in the case of candidates for the Indian 
Civil Service, and that our Provincial Governments, in the 
selection of members for their Provincial and Subordinate Civil 
Services, should give preference to candidates holding degrees in 
Anthropology in an Indian or foreign University. This will not 
only improve the quality of administrative work, but will! afford 
a strong incentive for the study and advancement of the 
Science. Executiveand Judicial Officers thus trained in Anthro- 
pology will in the course of their daily work have ample 
And the recorded results of such observation and inquiry 
by officers, thus trained, may be expected to advance to some 
extent the cause of anthropological research. 
If the Universities and the Government have not hitherto 
done all that thev could and should have done to help forward 
Anthropological research in the country, the millionaires of our 
country—our landed aristocracy, merchant-princes, and pro- 
anthropologica! research owes much to the liberal patronage of 
the wealthy. Thus, to take only one or two instances, 
Selenka-Trinil expedition to Java to search for the remains of 
Pithecanthropus Erectus and the Trinil race was fitted out in 
1907 by Frau Lenore Selenka at an enormous expense. An 
Sladen T 
ship in Ethnology which has since developed into a Professorship, 
were both established in 1904 by the generosity of a private 
gentleman. In the name of Indian students of the Science, 
I would now earnestly appeal to all wealthy patrons of learning 
in India to emulate their brethren in the West and open their 
purse-strings with similar liberality to advance the cause of 
anthropological research, and thus help to remove a long-stand- 
ing reproach against Indian scholarship. : | 
Lastly, 1 would earnestly appeal to all Indian students 
who feel attracted to this fascinating branch of study, to master 
it with assiduity, stick to it through life—through good fortune 
or evil, apply themselves whole heartedly to the interesting an- 
thropological material abundantly scattered all around them, 
but—alas !—fast slipping away as the days passby. I venture 
