WASSON’S SOMA: IMPORTANT REVIEWS 
AND PERTINENT COMMENTARY 
Bailey, H.W.: (1) ‘The Range of the Colour ZAR in Khotan Saka Texts’, 
Mémorial: Jean de Menasce, Fondation Culturelle Iranienne, 
Louvain, 1974; pp. 369-374: our quotation is from p. 372. 
(2) ‘Trends in Iranian Studies’, Memoirs of the Research 
Department of the Toyo Bunko (The Oriental Library) No. 29, 
Tokyo, The Toyo Bunko; see pp. 8 and 15. 
(3) ‘A Half-Century of Irano-Indian Studies’, Journal of the 
Royal Asiatic Society, 1972:2, pp. 99-110; see p. 105. 
(4) ‘The second stratum of the Indo-Iranian gods’, Mithraic 
Studies, edited by John R. Hinnells, Manchester University 
Press, 1975; see ftnt. 38. 
Brough, John: ‘Soma and Amanita Muscaria’, BSOAS, 34:2, 331-362. Re- 
view Article. 
Gershevitch, Ilya: ‘An Iranianist’s View of the Soma Controversy’, Mémo- 
rial: Jean de Menasce, Fondation Culturelle Iranienne, Lou- 
vain, 1974; pp. 45-75. 
Heim, Roger, and R.G. Wasson: ‘Les Putka des Santals Champignons doues 
d’une ame.” Cahiers du Pacifique N° 14, Sept. 1970; pp. 60-85, 
11 planches hors texte, 6 en couleur. The Ludgi Marndi cita- 
tion is on p. 65. 
Ingalls, Daniel H.H.: (1) The New York Times, Sunday Book Review Sec- 
tion, 5 Sept. 1971. 
(2) JAOS, 91:2, 1971. 
Kramrisch, Stella: ‘The Mahavira Vessel and the Plant Putika’, JAOS 95:2, 
April-June 1975, 222-235. 
Kuiper, F.B.J.: Indo-Iranian Journal, 12:4, 1970, pp. 279-285. Review Arti- 
cle. 
La Barre, Weston: American Anthropologist, Vol. 72, 1970, 368-373. Re- 
view Article. 
Lévi-Strauss, Claude: ‘Les champignons dans la culture: A propos d'un 
livrede M.R.-G. Wasson’, L’Homme, Vol. X, Cahier 1, 1970, 
pp. 5-16. Review Article. 
Schultes, Richard Evans: Journal of Psychedelic Drugs, Vol. 3:2, Spring 
1973. Review. 
Wasson, R.G. (1) ‘Soma: Comments Inspired by Professor Kuiper’s Re- 
view’, Indo-Iranian Journal, 12:4, 1970, pp. 286-298. This 
article appeared in the same issue immediately after the 
Kuiper review. 
(2) ‘Soma of the Rig Veda: what was it?’, JAOS, 91:2, April- 
June 1971. This paper was republished later by the American 
Oriental Society in their Essay Series, No. 7, along with 
Daniel Ingalls’s review that had appeared with itintheJAOS. 
(3) ‘Soma and the Fly-Agaric: Mr. Wasson’s Rejoinder to 
Professor Brough’, with Introduction by Richard Evans 
Schultes. Published by the Botanical Museum of Harvard 
University, Cambridge, Mass. 1972. 
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