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 added m'uch to their value by contributing also the measurement of the individuals photographed, all of which were carefully taken by himself. The photographic skill of Dr. Brown, Political Agent at Manipdr, was also utilized for illustrations of the Manipiiris and neighbouring tribes; others were sought elsewhere, and quite recently, after the work had approached completion, the Chdtiti. Nagpur collection. was enriched by the artistic labors of Messrs. T. F. and Tosco I’eppé. The latter gentleman, at my request, proceeded into wild parts of Singbhﬁm and Keonjhur, and brought his camera to bear on some of the most primitive of human beings, the Juz’ings, never previously subjected to the process.

It will be 'observed that the plates are not referred to in the body of the work; this was unavoidable, us, while putting together my notes, I did not know what illus- trations I could have, and the manuscripts of the diﬂ'erent chapters or sometimes of sections, were sent to Calcutta as completed. Explanatory notes and references to the pages of the work in which the tribes illustrated are described have, therefore, been given with the plates. -

The cost of publication of a work which had thus advanced from the modest project of a catalogue to a copiously-illustrated quarto volume of considerable dimen- sions, became matter for serious consideration ; but on application to the Government of Bengal a grant of Its. 10,000 was accorded. ‘ Steps were now taken for an immediate commencement, and in May, 1870, I received the gratifying intelligence that Dr. Thomas Oldliam, Superintendent of the Geological Survey of India, and Mr. II. Blochmann, of the Madrasah College and Secretary of the Asiatic Society, had kindly undertaken to superintend the printing of the lthnology on the part of the Council of that Society; and to those gentlemen, both so well-known to the scientiﬁc world, I am deeply indebted for most valuable advice, and for the unremit- ting care and attention they have been so good as to devote to the work in the midst of other arduous and important duties. Dr. Old ham specially took charge of the illustrations, and I am informed by him that the success of the plates is due to the artistic skill of Dr. George 'Wallich, London, who, as a gifted artist and one of the ﬁrst photographers of the day, was specially qualiﬁed to undertake the duty of seeing to their execution, and without whose guiding hand a result so satisfactory could not have been attained. At consit'lerable inconvenience, he at once, on being applied to, undertook the revision of the lithographs. Messrs. Hanhart have also ably carried out his suggestions. .

It will be found that I “am myself responsible for the accuracy of a large pro- portion of the descriptions given: During my Asziin career, I was employed in various expeditions amongst the hill tribes, and always kept journals of such trips. Some of these had appeared in ‘print in diﬂ’crent publications, and I knew where to look for them, but the mimuscripts of the remainder were lost to me during the mutinics; and from this circumstance, and the want of other material, my notices of some of the Asz’tm tribes are not so full as I should like to have made them._ But I did not conﬁne myself to my oWn reminiscences. I availed myself of various other sources of information, gleaning from all published works that I could ﬁnd bearing on the