THE PSYCHIC LIFE OF THE THONGA TRIBE. 12/ 



himself guilt}' of a crime which li£ has committed if he 

 has not been convicted thereof. In his concluding sentences the 

 author, having in view a long list of the vices of civilisation 

 (which list he tells over categorically), expresses fear for the 

 extinction of the tribe unless these influences be checked, and 

 so he makes an appeal to Education to provide the enlighten- 

 ment of mind, and to Christianity to lead the weak and carnal 

 Bantu to its own ideal, as the people's only salvation from the 

 annihilation which he otherwise considers inevitable. 



International Electrical, and Engineer- 

 ing Congresses.— The International Electrical Congress is 

 to be held at San Francisco from September 13th to i8th, 1915, 

 under the auspices of the American Institute of Electrical 

 Engineers, by authority of the International Electrotechnical 

 Commission, and during the Panama Pacific International Exjw- 

 sition. The deliberations of the Congress will be divided among 

 twelve sections, which will deal exclusively with electricity and 

 electrical practice. The International Engineering- Congress 

 will be held at San Francisco during the week immediately follow- 

 ing the Electrical Congress. The F,ngineering Congress is 

 supported by the Societies of Civil, Mechanical, and Marine 

 Engineers, and by the Institutes of Mining and Electrical 

 Engineers, as well as by the prominent Pacific Coast engineers 

 who are actively engaged in organising it. This Congress will 

 deal with engineering in a general sense, electrical engineering- 

 subjects being limited to one of its eleven sections. 



International Congress of Tropical Agri- 

 culture. — The International Association for Tropical Agri- 

 culture has decided to hold an Liternational Congress in London 

 during June, 1914, and all countries interested in Tropical Agri- 

 culture and Forestry are invited to participate therein. The 

 principal object of the Congress is the discussion of ways and 

 means of improving agriculture in the Tropics, and thereby 

 increasing the production of the numerous food-stuffs and 

 industrial raw materials derived from tropical countries. The 

 Congress is to be held in the Imperial Institute. South Kensing- 

 ton, London, S.W., and communications intended for submission 

 thereto may be made in English. French. German, or Italian, but 

 the general language of the Congress will Ix- English. The 

 following subjects for papers and discussion are suggested: — 

 Technical education and research in tropical agriculture. Labour 

 organisation and supply in tropical countries, Scientific problems 

 of rubber production. Methods of developing cotton cultivation 

 in new countries, Problems of fibre production. Agricultural 

 credit banks, Agriculture in arid regions. Problems in tropical 

 hygiene and preventive medicine, Problems relating to tropical 

 agriculture and forestry. The cultivation and production of 

 rubber, cotton and fibres, cereals and other foodstuffs, tod^acco, 

 tea, cocoanuts, other agricultural products, and forest products, 

 Plant diseases and pests affecting tropical agriculture. 



V. . 



