1900.] Annual Address. 55 



tribes and castes for those parts of India which are not covered by 

 existing investigations. 



Thirdly, we want a series of permanent photographs of the typical 

 tribes and castes of each Province and Native State. 



Fourthly, we want those who are engaged on similar inquiries in 

 Europe to recognise that India is full of survivals, which are none the 

 less instructive because the people among whom they occur are in no 

 sense moribund and are ready enough to avail themselves of the 

 material advantages which an alien civilization places within their 

 reach. It was with this object that I referred just now to the bearing 

 of Indian Ethnographic data on the question of the origin of totemisni 

 and exogamy, and that I drew attention in last year's address to some 

 parallels between the domestic life of the Greeks and Romans and 

 that of the people of India at the present day. It may be that I 

 exaggerate the importance of things Indian — if so I am content to err 

 in such good company as Sir Henry Maine, Herr Bachofen, and M. 

 Fustel de Coulanges — but in any case the matter seems to deserve 

 serious examinaoion and cannot be brushed aside lightly with the 

 remark that there is nothing primitive in India. 



All members of the Society will hear with regret that his Grace 

 Archbishop Goethals, who till lately was one of our Vice-Presidents, 

 is about to leave India. The Archbishop's superb library, and his wide 

 knowledge of all branches of literature bearing on India and the East, 

 have always been at the disposal of students, and I am proud of being 

 one of the many who have profited by his advice and guidance in 

 matters of research. 



There is no need for me to ask you to join with me in welcoming 

 Sir John Woodburn as the next President. His sympathy with the 

 ways of thought of the natives of this country, his knowledge of their 

 traditions and usages and his familiarity with their village life — the 

 real life of the people of India — furnish the best guarantee that under 

 his auspices the lines of inquiry 0!i which we are now proceeding will 

 be developed and extended. 



I will now ask His Excellency the Patron to address the Society 

 on Ancient Buildings in India. Those of us who are acquainted with 

 Lord Curzon's interesting study of the architecture of Kedleston House, 

 the prototype of Government House, Calcutta, will know that His 

 Excellency has made this fascinating subject peculiarly his own. 



