Lectures on Ethonography

It seeks to detemine which are the permanent varieties of the crania by.the facial features by the stature and the proportion of the 1)64 by the microscopic strug ture of the hair and by the colour of the skin. [...] "-It is said that the key to the history of the primitive man lies in the geographical distribution of mankind to begin with and then in the manner in which culture has been acquired and the means of culture from the"11 production of fire up to the loftiest ideas of the hist:cob:Al' nations. [...] further advance was made at the instance of the British Association Lord Carson's Government obtained the sanction of the Secretary of State to a scheme for a comprehensive Ethnographic survey of the customs of the most important tribes and castes of India on the lines that had been followed in Bengal. [...] This was also thought to he a right step in the direction of "the recognition of Anthropology in the widest sense on the administrative problems of theEmpire.'" "In the discussion of the conference held at Simla in July 1911 regarding the relation of the Musuems to the Educational systems of India it was said that one of the most urgent needs in India was an Ethnographic Museum under Scientifi [...] The natives of the Andaman islands and those of many islands og the equatorial regions of the Pacific wherein the conditions are similar are at the opposite ends of the scale of height.