PREFACE. 
These Notes and Queries are published by- the British 
Association for the Advancement of Science in pursuance 
of the following recommendation of the General Committee, 
passed at the Brighton Meeting in August 1872:— 
“ That Colonel Lane Box, Dr. Beddoe, Mr. Franks, Mr. 
Francis Galton, Mr. E. W. Brabrook, Sir John Lubbock, 
Bart., Sir Walter Elliot, Mr. Clements B. Markham, and Mr. 
E. B. Tylor be a Committee for the purpose of preparing 
and publishing brief forms of instruction for travellers, 
ethnologists, and other anthropological observers; that 
Colonel Lane Fox be the Secretary, and that the sum of 
£25 be placed at their disposal for the purpose.” 
At the Bradford Meeting, in September 1873? the recom¬ 
mendation was renewed and the grant increased to £50, 
with the view of covering all possible expenses and pro¬ 
ducing a work calculated to suffice for the use of travellers 
for some time to come. 
Owing to the number of contributors, the publication 
