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valuable to us. To Colonel Dalton especially are we in lebted for 

 many contributions, and for bis services in editing the work upon 

 which he is now engaged. 



The original design of a congress of all the races of the old world, 

 has undergone some modification, and it has been reduced to the 

 minor proportion of a congress of the races of India. 



The scheme progresses but slowly. Financial difficulties stand in 

 the way, and it is not yet sufficiently matured, to assure us that any 

 prospect of its early realization is practicable, but still the subject 

 of ethnology has received an impulse, and men's minds are gradually 

 becoming more and more imbued with interest in one of the leading 

 questions of scientific enquiry of the present day. 



A vast amount of valuable information has been collected,* and by 



* Ethnological Repouts. 

 Received from the Government of Bengal, 



From the 24-Pergunnahs. Cuttack. 



Patna. Purneah. 



Beerbhoom. Bhaugulpore. 



Burdwan. Chittagong. 



Western and Eastern Doars. Assam. 



Dacca. Tirhoot. 



Rajshye. Straits Settlement. 



Through the Government of India, Home Department. 



Central India. Rewah. 



Gwalior. Bhopal. 



Malwa. Nowgong. 



Sirdarpore. Hyderabad. 



Through the Government of N. W. P, 



Dehra Dhoon. Etah. 



Saharunpore. Mynpoorie. 



Mozuffnuggur. Furruckabad. 



Meerut. Futtehpore. 



Boolundshur. Allahabad. 



Allyghur. Hameerpore. 



Rohilcund. Cawnpore. 



A gra- Banda. 



