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elsewhere, to polytheism is here more than half accom- plished. Holy ground, such as may become the sacred enclosure or temenos of god and temple, is to be found round the Ertnatulunga ; sacred objects, to which myths of all kinds hereafter may attach, are provided in the Churinga; sacred ceremonies, the meaning of which is already for- gotten but the outlines of which already provide a fixed, public ritual for the whole community, are forthcoming in the Engwura ; the sacramental meal is there in the Intichiuma ceremonies ; and the germs of a hereditary priesthood may be found in the fact that the Intichiuma may only be celebrated by the clan of the particular totem concerned, though the whole tribal community (without reference to clans) is admitted to eat the sacred food, after the celebrant has first partaken of it.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17th, 1899. The President (Mr. E. Sidney Hartland) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. D. Isaac and Mr. C. H. James was announced. The resignation of Miss Edith Mendham and Mr. J. T. Naake, and the death of Lady Paget were also announced.

Lieut. -Colonel Temple read a paper entitled " The Machinery of Folktales as exhibited in the Legends of the Panjab," and a discussion followed, in which Mr. Coldstream, Mr. Crooke, the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, Mr. Clodd, Miss Dempster, and Mr. Nutt took part.

The meeting concluded with a vote of thanks to Colonel Temple for his paper.