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delay in sending instructions to the Committee. The British 

 Association Committee of the Ethnographical Survey of the 

 British Islands, was appointed in 1892, and they reported to the 

 Association at Nottingham in August last. The report had 

 been accepted, and now the British Association Committee was 

 about to begin work. 



Our Ulster Committee was elected in January, 1893, and, as a 

 result, four papers had been read before the Belfast Naturalists' 

 Field Club, and published in the Proceedings (Series 2, vol. iii., 

 part 6). F. J. Bigger, Secretary to the Club, read a paper on 

 Local Folk Lore (pp. 545-548) ; Lily S. Mollan communicated 

 on " Pishogues from Tipperary " (pp. 571-573) ; W. H. Patter- 

 son, Secretary to the Committee, gave an account of " Irish 

 Fairies" (pp. 573-583), and Mrs. Blair's paper was entitled 

 M Items of Folk Lore : principally from County Down " (pp. 

 583-586). 



The Field Club had always taken an interest in archaeology, 

 and a valuable illustrated summary of local flint implements 

 has been presented by Wm. Gray, entitled, " Worked Flints, 

 Ancient and Modern" (pp. 548-569, plates 1-8). Clara M. 

 Patterson has taken down, and made photographs of, several 

 children's games, a branch of folk-lore which is of extreme 

 interest. Lastly, the series of photographs, made by R. Welch 

 for the purpose of illustrating Irish peasant life, and the survival 

 of the past in the present, are of very great value in the Survey 

 which is now being started. The above is a very fair record for 

 nine months work, when we bear in mind that nothing has as 

 yet been accomplished in England in connection with the 

 Survey. 



Professor Haddon further pointed out the direction which 

 future work might profitably take, and invited members of the 

 Club, during their summer holidays, to make observations on 

 the hair and eye colour of the folk in country districts. The 

 observations should be made according to the methods first 

 employed by Dr. Beddoe, and now adopted by the Survey 

 Committee. He also asked for volunteers to undertake the 



