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customs as affording important evidence on this point. Owing 

 to the representations of scientists who recognised the necessity 

 for immediate action in the direction of an ethnographical survey, 

 the British Association was acting in concert with the Folk- 

 Lore Society, the Anthropological Institute, and the Society of 

 Antiquaries of London, as well as other kindred societies ; and 

 a committee, of which he had the honour of being a member, 

 had been appointed for the purpose of carrying out this work. 

 A committee had now been formed in Dublin to carry out the 

 survey in Ireland, under direction of the central committee in 

 London, and he now suggested that the Belfast Naturalists' 

 Field Club should appoint a committee to undertake ethno- 

 graphical work in Ulster, their results to pass through the 

 Dublin committee to the central institution. Professor Haddon 

 then explained at length the lines on which work should be 

 carried on, dealing especially with physical measurements, folk- 

 lore, and dialect. He stated that the central committee would 

 shortly issue schedules and instructions, which would be passed 

 to the local committee for distribution among individuals 

 interested in the subject and willing to aid in this important 

 work. 



Mr. Seaton F. Milligan, M.R.I.A., said that Mr. R. M. Young, 

 M.R.I.A., hon. secretary of the Belfast Natural History and 

 Philosophial Society, who had to leave early, would suggest that 

 the proposed local ethnographical committee should be a joint 

 one, composed of members both of the Society which he repre- 

 sented and of the Field Club. 



Mr. Wm. Gray, M.R.I. A., thought that a joint committee 

 was not advisable ; each Society was a Corresponding Society 

 of the British Association, and the interests of science would be 

 best met by each reporting independently to that body on the 

 local ethnor raphical work accomplished. 



Mr. R. Lloyd Praeger, M.R.I. A., senior secretary, thought 

 that as the Field Club had initiated matters, they might fairly 

 carry it on without recourse to a joint committee, which would 

 only complicate the work. Professor Haddon and the secretaries 

 had had the appointment of a local committee under considera- 



