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it to you to commend it to the Council, with such support or alteration 

 as you may deem expedient." 



Yours sincerely, 

 Calcutta, 16th December, 1865. J. Fayrer. 



Extract from the Proceedings of the Council under date the 

 2nd February, 1866. 



" Read the minutes of the Council on Dr. Fayrer's letter, proposing 

 that assistance be requested from the Government in collecting in an 

 Ethnological Exhibition, typical examples of the races of the Old 

 World, that they be made the subject of study when collected. 



" Referred for report to a Committee consisting of Dr. Fayrer, 

 A. G-rote, Esq., Dr. D. Boyes Smith, W. L. Heeley, Esq., Dr. John 

 Anderson, and Dr. S. B. Partridge ; with power to add to their number." 



No. 139. 

 From John Anderson, Esq., M. D., 



Natural History Secretary, Asiatic Society. 

 ■ To E. C. Bayley, Esq., 



Secretary to the Govt, of India, Home Department. 



Asiatic Society's Booms, Calcutta, 8th March, 1866. 

 " Sir, — With reference to the annexed letter from Dr. J. Fayrer 

 to the Natural History Secretary of the Asiatic Society, I have the 

 honor to inform you, that the Council of the Society have considered 

 the proposition embodied in the letter, and, I am requested to say, it 

 has received their cordial support. 



" The Council were unanimous in regarding the proposition as one 

 highly calculated to advance the science of ethnology, and they 

 believe it to contain a recognition of the only method by which many 

 of the historical, philological and anatomical facts of the science will 

 be rightly understood. I am, therefore, directed to request, in the hope 

 that the proposal will meet with the approval and support of Govern- 

 ment, that the claims of Dr. Fayrer's admirable and original proposition 

 may be submitted for the consideration of His Excellency the 

 Governor- General in Council. 



11 In the proposition, as it originally stands, it is intended to bring- 

 together in congress, typical examples of all the races of man found 

 scattered throughout the Asiatic Continent and the Pacific Archipelago, 

 and in no other part of the world does man present such a diversity of 



