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Also the presentation of the following works for the Library :— 
** Proceedings of the Royal Society ” From the same. 
“Proceedings of the Royal Institution ” 5 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society ” s 
“Proceedings of the Royal United Service Institution” a 
* Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute” 
“‘ Proceedings of the Royal Dublin Society ” Be 
‘‘ Proceedings of the Royal Asiatic Society of India” MS 
“Proceedings of the Geological Society ” nA 
“ Proceedings of the Society of Biblical Archzeology ” a 
“ Proceedings of the American Geographical Society ” ‘5 
“ Proceedings of the Bureau of Ethnology ” 
“Proceedings of the United States Geological Survey ” 
“900 Miles up the Nile.” By Rev. F. A. Walker, D.D., F.L.S. 
From the Author. 
“The London Quarterly Journal ” From A. McArthur, Esq., M.P- 
Also smaller works by the Rev. Prebendary Row, Rey. R. Collins, Dr. 
Thompson, Mrs. Ince, &e. 
THE RELIGION OF THE ABORIGINAL TRIBES OF 
INDIA. By Professor J. Avery, of Bowdoin College, 
Brunswick, Maine, United States. 
F an apology were needed for bringing to the attention of 
students of religion the crude notions of savage tribes. 
regarding their relations to the unseen world, and the often 
revolting practices which have sprung therefrom, this would 
not be founded solely upon the claim which they rightly 
make upon Christian philanthropy, but also on then 
scientific interest and value. If we have observed aright the 
course of thought at the present time, there is a growing 
disposition to study attentively all the systems of religion 
which at one time or another have been devised or accepted 
by men, with the view to discover their origin and the laws. 
which have governed their development. There is a tendency 
also to withdraw the study of religion from the exclusive: 
dominion of sentiment, and to apply to it the same rigid. 
canons of criticism which have been used so successfully in 
other fields of inquiry. ‘There has been a time when the 
Christian Church viewed everything called religion outside 
its own fold much as the Greeks looked at the world beyond 
the confines of their peninsula, and lumped together alien: 
