I wns of Schedule prepared by a Committee of the British Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, appointed to Organise an Ethno- 

 graphical Survey of the United Kingdom. 



Members op the Committee. 



Francis Galton, F.R.S., J. G. Garson, M.D., and E. W. Brabrook, 

 l|3.A. (Chairman), representing the Anthropological Institute. 



Edward Clodd, G. L. Gomme, F.S.A,, and Joseph Jacobs, M.A., re- 

 j isenting the Folklore Society. 



G. W. G. Leveson Gower, V.P.S.A., George Payne, F.S.A., and 

 <|neral Pitt-Rivers, F.R.S., representing the Society of Antiquaries of 

 I ndon. 



J Sir C. M. Kennedy, C.B., K.C.M.G., and E. G. Ravenstein, repre- 

 ssing the Royal Statistical Society. 



A Member representing the Dialect Society. 



Dr. J. Beddoe, F.R.S. ; Arthur J. Evans, F.S.A. ; Sir H. H. Howorth, 

 ]ja.S. ; Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S. 



[ John Rhys, M.A., Jesus Professor of Celtic in the University of 

 <:ford, and also Professor Boyd Dawkins, F.R.S., E. S. Hartland, F.S.A., 

 ]|iward Laws, the Ven. Archdeacon Thomas, F.S.A., S. W. Williams, 

 l^S.A., and J. Romilly Allen, F.S.A. Scot. (Secretary), representing the 

 < mbrian Archaeological Society, and forming a Sub- Committee for Wales. 



Joseph Anderson, LL.D., Secretary of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland. 



Professor D. J. Cunningham, F.R.S., C. R. Browne, M.D., and Pro- 

 ftsor A. C. Haddon, M.A., representing the Royal Irish Academy, and 

 [•ming a Sub-Committee for Ireland (Prof. Haddon, Secretary). 



E. Sidney Hartland, F.S.A., Secretary. 



This Committee has already made two preliminary reports to the 

 . sociation, in which the names of 367 villages or places in various parts 

 i the United Kingdom have been indicated as especially to deserve 

 i mographic study. The list, large as it is, is not exhaustive. For 

 I 3se and such other villages and places as may appear to be suitable, 

 1 Committee propose to record — 



(1) Physical types of the inhabitants ; 



(2) Current traditions and beliefs ; 



(3) Peculiarities of dialect ; 



(4) Monuments and other remains of ancient culture ; and 



(5) Historical evidence as to continuity of race. 



j All communications should be addressed to * The Secretary or 

 [E Ethnographic Survey, British Association, Burlington House, 

 mdon, W.' 



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