920 Queries respecting the Human Race. QNo. 155. 



expended in printing a set of queries to be addressed to those who 

 may travel or reside in parts of the globe inhabited by the threatened 

 races. A Committee was likewise appointed by the same Section to 

 prepare a list of such questions. The following pages, to which the 

 attention of travellers and others is earnestly invited, have, in conse- 

 quence, been produced. It is right to observe, that whilst these ques- 

 tions have been in preparation, the Ethnographical Society of Paris 

 has printed a set of questions on the same subject for the use of 

 travellers.* It has been gratifying to perceive the general similarity 

 between the questions proposed by the French savans who compose 

 that Society, and those* which had been already prepared by the Com- 

 mittee; but the Committee is bound to acknowledge the assistance 

 which, in the completion of its task, it has derived from the compre- 

 hensive character and general arrangement of the Ethnographical So- 

 ciety's list. The following queries might have been considerably ex- 

 tended, and much might have been added to explain the reasons and 

 motives on which some of them are founded. Such additions would, 

 however, have inconveniently extended these pages, and, in part, 

 have defeated their object. The Committee has only further to ex- 

 press its desire that the Association may continue its support to the 

 interesting subject of Ethnography, and that their fellow-members 

 will aid in bringing these queries under the notice of those who may 

 have it in their power to obtain replies. Britain, in her extensive 

 colonial possessions and commerce, and in the number and intelligence 

 of her naval officers, possesses unrivalled facilities for the elucidation 

 of the whole subject ; and it would be a stain on her character, as well 

 as a loss to humanity, were she to allow herself to be left behind by 

 other nations in this inquiry. 



It will be desirable, before giving direct answers to the questions 

 proposed in the following list, that the traveller should oner, in his 

 own terms, a description of the particular group of human beings, 

 which he may have in view in drawing up his list of answers, seeing 

 that the replies, however accurate and replete with useful information, 

 may fail in some particulars to give a complete idea of the people to 

 whom they relate. 



* Keprinted Jour. A». Soc. vol. x« p. 171. 



