Note 14 — EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND.

It may not have been apparent to the readers of our previous and this Report that, in order to arrive at final conclusions, after our collection of data is considered large enough, a certain amount of formal sameness and method of recording has been followed by the Committee throughout. This is for the final development of a system of easy tabulation at the end when all our data, year with year, come to be compared and deductions drawn. Our Irish members of Committee have departed somewhat from this plan of work, but there seems no reason apparent why their results need not with equal ease be made workable into the final form of reduction.