PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION. 
The quick demand for a new edition of these Notes and 
Queries proves the increasing ^interest in Anthropology 
taken by travellers. 
The British Association for the Advancement of Science 
has again advanced a sum of money to meet the cost of a 
Third Edition, and entrusted the editing to the Editors of 
the previous edition under a Committee of whiclrThey are 
members and Prof. E. B. Tylor, F.R.S., is chairman. 
The whole work has been carefully revised throughout. 
Some sections have been re-modelled or re-written altogether, 
and a few new ones have been added. The alterations have 
not, however, required to be so extensive, especially in the 
first part, as on the previous occasion. It is hoped that the 
alterations which have been made will materially add to the 
usefulness of the work, by facilitating the labours of the 
traveller in making observations. For these alterations, 
the two Editors are to be held responsible, and not the 
original writers of the sections in the cases where these 
were written by others than the Editors. 
September , 1899. 
