JOURNAL 
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SUPLEMENTARY NUMBER. 
Vou. XX XV. Part Il. 
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The Ethnology of India.— By Mr. Justice CampBEnt. 
[Received 4th June, 1866. | 
T trust that the great subject of Indian Ethnology has been taken 
up by the Society in a serious and earnest manner, with a view to 
that actual observation and practical inquiry which is only possible 
in the countries and on the spots where the various races are found, or 
where specimens of them may be collected together. The Govern- 
ment has already consented to take the first step in aid of the move- 
ment by collecting from its officers, in all parts of India, lists of the 
races and classes existing in the various districts. The present paper 
is designed to assist both Government officers and private persons in 
making classified and descriptive lists in such a uniform manner, and 
with such a uniform nomenclature and arrangement, that it may be 
afterwards possible te weld together the whole of the information thus 
obtained. Without some common plan and nomenclature, without, as 
it were, some Hthnological skeleton to serve as the guide and model 
into which the various details may be fitted, and by which they may 
be classed, I fear that there may be much confusion and error in 
bringing together lists which must necessarily often be made by offi- 
cials who have little knowledge of Ethnology as a science, and whese 
practical knowledge and nomenclature are limited to their own par- 
ticular parts of India. My object then is, to supply a sort of rough 
