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portant discoveries. The outdoor naturalist may, if he bear in 

 mind how much there is yet unknown or uncertain as to the real 

 history and belongings of primitive Man, not unreasonably expect 

 to find something that may clear up one or other of these doubtful 

 questions. In any case, the study and training of the zoologist 

 will eminently fit him for such an undertaking, for it is upon 

 zoological principles and by zoological methods that such ques- 

 tions can most properly be determined. 



I have still another appeal to make to the zoologist, but it is 

 one which I address to him in common with the thoughtful and 

 scientific observer generally. It is that he should join in the 

 careful and systematic record of the phenomena of the people of 

 our own time and country. For this purpose an ethnographic 

 survey has been organized for the United Kingdom, and facts 

 are being accumulated with regard not only to the physical types 

 of the inhabitants of various places, but also to their current 

 traditions and beliefs and their peculiarities of dialect, as well as 

 to the monuments and remains of ancient culture in their vicinity, 

 and the other historical documents which tend to give evidence 

 as to the continuity of race. If each individual among us is the 

 result not only of the circumstances by which he is surrounded, 

 but of the physical and moral characters which have come to him 

 by the use during countless generations of faculties that have 

 been ever growing and widening, the close observation of the 

 present generation may reveal much of the history of the past, 

 and give guidance to the generations to come. 



