The lectures contained in the present little volume are the first instalment of the work undertaken in connection with the Queen’s Fund. The Committee’s artist, Mr. A. Hugh Fisher, has travelled through India collecting material for the illustrative lantern slides. His sketches and photographs have been reproduced partly by the ordinary process in black and white, and partly by the Sanger Shepherd method in colour photography. Some of the slides have been coloured by hand after Mr. Fisher’s instructions. A series of maps has also been included, in order that the lessons of the lectures may be driven home. The text of the lectures has been prepared at the request of the Committee by Mr. H. J. Mackinder, who has based his work on information placed at his disposal from many sources. The Committee believe that he has succeeded in presenting in their relative importance and proportion all the chief facts essential to the popular understanding of His Majesty’s Indian Dominions. It is, of course, obvious that no account confined within the narrow limits of the present lectures, of so wide and varied an Empire as that of India, can give a completely accurate picture of all the many important facts and questions that are referred to; but in order to reduce to a minimum the chance of giving misleading impressions, Mr. Mackinder has had the advantage of suggestions from several eminent authorities on the subject, and in this connection the Committee desire especially to thank Sir Walter Lawrence, Sir William Lee-Warner, Sir Theodore Morison, Sir Thomas Holdich, Sir William Bisset, Sir Philip Hutchins, Mr. G. W. Forrest, C.I.E., and others. MEATH, Chairman of the Visual Instruction Committee LONDON, August, 1910. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publications of the Visual Instruction Committee, issued on behalf of the Committee by Messrs. Waterlow & Sons Ltd. =A.= Seven Lectures on the United Kingdom, By Mr. H. J. MACKINDER. In the following Editions:— =1. Eastern Colonies Edition, Sept., 1905.= In use in Ceylon, the Straits Settlements, and Hong Kong. =2. Mauritius Edition, June, 1906.= In use in Mauritius. =3. West African Edition, Sept., 1906.= In use in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, and Southern Nigeria. =4. West India Edition, Sept., 1906.= In use in Trinidad, British Guiana, and Jamaica. =5. Indian Edition, March, 1907.= In use in the following Provinces:—Madras, Bombay, Bengal, the United Provinces, the Punjab, Burma, Eastern Bengal and Assam, the Central Provinces, the North West Frontier Province, and British Baluchistan.