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union between persons standing to each other in the relation of grandparents and grandchildren, including grand-uncles and aunts. Traces of this custom, as he points out, have been noticed elsewhere, and are also found among the Gonds of the Central Provinces. The accounts of the ceremonial hunting and seasonal dances are also of interest. The totemism of the Oraons is of the normal Indian type, and presents no special features. There are a number of photographs, and among them may be mentioned a good reproduction of the tattoo-marks of an Oraon woman. Altogether Mr. Roy may be congratulated on a detailed and painstaking study of the tribe, which will rank as authoritative, and it may be hoped that this is not the last of his contributions to Indian ethnology. R. V. Russell.

I record with much regret that the author of this review perished on his voyage to India in the Peninsular and Oriental S.S. "Persia," which was recently destroyed by a German submarine in the Mediterranean. Mr. Russell was a member of the Indian Civil Service, and was attached to the Central Provinces. He was in charge of the Census operations in 1901, and his Report is one of the most interesting in the series. After his work on the Census was completed he was appointed Director of the Ethno- graphic Survey, and from time to time issued several valuable monographs on the Tribes and Castes of the Province. In 1914 he was invalided to England suffering from a painful disease. During his leisure from ofificial duties he devoted his time to the preparation of an important work on the Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces, which has been recently published by the Local Government through Messrs. Macmillan & Co. Mr. Russell was not only an indefatigable field anthropologist, but one widely read in the literature of the subject. In his last great work he has advanced novel views on tribal organization, Totemism, and other questions, which the study of the forest tribes suggested. By his untimely death the Indian Civil Service loses a valued officer, and Folklore and Anthropology an ardent and learned worker. His many friends will regret a charming personality, and will re- member his unfailing kindliness and readiness to place his stores of knowledge at the service of other workers in the fields in which his interest lay. W. Crooke.