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NATURE STUDY 
coral reefs along the coast and collections of the corals and 
other invertebrate marine fauna. 
Botany. 
1. Complete list of species; this will take a long time to 
accomplish, and many new species still remain to be described. 
2. Geographical distribution. 
8. Seasonal changes of plants. 
4. Exact localities in which species of special interest can 
be obtained. 
5. Introduced plants. 
6. Botany of economic products. 
7. Classified reference collection. 
Geology. 
1. Information on structural geology of country. 
2. Reference collections of rock and mineral specimens. 
3. Research into the palaeontology of the country, with 
special attention to the recent fossil mammals, ancestors of 
elephant and horse, fossil mollusca. 
4. Economic geology of the Protectorate. 
5. Evidences of palaeolithic man. 
Anthropology and Ethnology. 
Researches should be divided into different heads. 
1 . Physical characteristics : this includes measurements of 
the live subjects and collections of crania. 
2. Physiological characteristics : this includes observations 
on the senses, physical powers, psychology, heredity, and 
may also be well extended to diseases, medicine, surgery, 
deformities, &c. 
3. Material life such as clothing, ornamentations, dwellings, 
industries, art, food. 
4. Social life, which includes birth, marriage and death 
customs, initiatory customs, war, hunting, crimes, morals, 
laws, government, trade, cultivation, &c. 
5. Religion, mythology and magic, also totemism, coven- 
ants, oaths, ordeals. 
6. Representative collections of the implements, arms and 
