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THE final meeting of the general committee of the British Association was held on Wednesday in last week, for the purpose of receiving the report of the committee of recommendations. The list of grants made for various scientific purposes has already been given (p. 496). The committee also recommended that, in view of the opportunities of ethnographic inquiry which will be presented by the Indian census now beginning, the council of the Association be requested to urge the Government of India to make use of the census officers to obtain information with reference to particular races and tribes, and to attach photographers to the census officers to furnish a complete photographic series of typical specimens of the various races, of views of archaic industries, and of other facts interesting to ethnologists. This recommendation was accepted and ordered to be forwarded to the council. It was also resolved that the council be requested to recommend to Her Majesty's Government the importance of giving more prominence to botany in the training of Indian forest officers.
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The Dover Meeting of the British Association. Nature 60, 521–535 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060521a0
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