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when subjects become hysterical. After a Wichita dance he saw a 

 subject who offered unusual resistance finally hj'pnotized. First, a 

 black handkerchief was waved by the shaman before the eyes of the 

 woman as she circled in the dance, then an eagle's feather. After a 

 half hour's struggle, during which time she trembled as if in agony and 

 at times braced herself to avoid falling, she finally fell rigid, as others 

 had done. The speaker had seen ten or twenty persons stretched upon 

 the ground in a hypnotic trance in the remarkable dramatic performance 

 of the Hopi Indians. 



Dr. E. L. Morgan reported having seen an Indian shaman manip- 

 ulate a man who had been shot in the chest, and produce by sleight- 

 of-hand the bullet from his back. It is said that American Indians also 

 perform a trick similar to the famous mango trick of India, making 

 a bush grow in a few moments under a buffalo robe. Most spiritualis- 

 tic phenomena are to be explained, he thought, as mind reading. 



Dr. GuDMUND Hatt, of the University of Copenhagen, said that 

 much of Lapp magic also is explainable by hypnotism. Very sus- 

 ceptible persons can not only be strongly influenced, but cured from 

 sickness, or made sick, or even killed, by the hypnotic influence exer- 

 cised by Lapps. Many Scandinavians believe this, and there are well 

 authenticated instances of it. Lapps also understand "second sight;" 

 instead of a crystal, they use a glass of liquor. In one such instance 

 a Lapp saw a favorite deer of his which was being treacherously killed 

 in a distant place; the fact was afterwards confirmed. 



Dr. John R. Swanton was elected President of the Society for the 

 ensuing year; Dr. I. M. Casanowicz, Vice-President; and William 

 A. Babcock a member of the Board of Managers. The following 

 officers were reelected: Secretary, Dr. Daniel Folkmar; Treasurer, 

 Mr. J. N. B. Hewitt; Councilors: Mr. Francis La Flesche, 

 Mr. George C. Maynard, Dr. Edwin L. Morgan, and Mr. Felix 

 Neumann. 



Daniel Folkmar, Secretary. 



