1866.] Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. 93 



the Turkish and Mongolian tribes are readily available. That most 

 remarkable race of Mongolian feature, Persian tongue, and remarkable 

 energy and industry, the Hazarihs of the hills about G-huznee, come 

 freely to the Punjab to seek labour ; and there are in those quarters 

 many other peculiar tribes. The Turkish race reaches in fact into 

 the territory of the Maharajah of Cashmere, and both by that route 

 and by Cabul, Turcomans and Northern Asiatics of every degree find 

 their way to the Punjab. There is a Thibetan population all along 

 the north-eastern frontier of the Punjab territories, and the races of 

 Central Asia come in freely by that route. Thus then we might have 

 at Lahore the finest Arian races, some of the finest Turanian races, 

 and a great variety of races blended between the two. We may look, 

 I think, to the Lieutenant- Governor of the Punjab to encourage any 

 good movement for the advancement of knowledge. I therefore 

 would bring the present movement specially to his notice, by moving 

 the following resolution : — 



"3. That a copy of the Proceedings be communicated to the Pun- 

 jab Government, with the expression of a hope that it also will take 

 an early opportunity of collecting and comparing specimens of the 

 various very interesting and highly developed races in and about its 

 territory, as a measure preliminary to a more general Ethnological 

 Congress." 



Mr. Atkinson seconded the resolution. 



In support of the motion, Mr. Beverley wished to point out that, 

 although from the enormous variety of district frontier tribes, Bengal 

 offered peculiar facilities for such an Exhibition, as had been proposed, 

 still, much valuable information might be collected in the Punjab, in 

 which direction lay the ancient Iran, the cradle of the human race. It 

 was to be expected that we should there find important facts which 

 would help to throw light on the earliest history of man. The degree 

 of assistance which the Society might expect from Government in 

 this matter, would depend, in a great measure, upon the exertions with 

 which, in the mean time, it amassed the requisite facts and information 

 to give interest and value to the specimens when collected. He might 

 say, the world was looking to this society for the solution of many of 

 the difficulties in which the early history of man was involved, and it 

 therefore behoved each member to exert himself. There were two 



