February, 1915.] Annual Address. XXxi 
to lay stress, however, on the fact that what is here popularly 
accepted as anthropology would hardly be deemed deserving 
of that appellation in scientific circles. Investigation in An- 
thropology on scientific lines is an impossibility without a 
nowledge of Biology, and in this country, there is unfor- 
tunately a singular lack of men adequately qualified by pre- 
vious training for anthropological work on really sound and 
satisfactory lines; the few who have the requisite qualification 
are preoccupied in other spheres of research. In view of the 
unquestioned importance of this work, I willingly avail myself 
of this opportunity to emphasize the opinion expressed by the 
Council of the Society, that for the progress of anthropologi- 
cal studies in this country, it is essential that we should have 
on the staff of the Indian Museum a trained anthropologist as 
of the Assam Himalayas by Sir George Duff Satherland Dun- 
~ with its anthropological appendix by Messrs. Coggin Brown 
an em 
