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17. Rev. J. Roscoz.—The Mackie Ethnological Hxpedition to the 
Uganda Protectorate. 
Among the pastoral tribes of Ankole and Bunyoro the milk diet is closely 
adhered to. The pastoral peoples are entirely different from the negro stock 
and are evidently the descendants of later immigrants. There is every prob- 
ability that it may be possible to prove their connection with the Galla people 
and, through them, with ancient Egypt. Wherever they are found these 
pastoral tribes are the dominant race, having subdued and enslaved the 
aborigines. In some districts they have avoided intermarriage, and the two 
clearly differentiated races are found side by side. 
The expedition was also successful in discovering a line of demarcation 
between the pastoral people of the Lake region and the Somali, Masai, and 
Nandi tribes, who are of the same origin. The latter perform at puberty 
certain initiation ceremonies involving circumcision, while the former avoid 
circumcision and any mutilation of the genital organs of their women. 
18. Dr. Neuson ANNANDALE.—On a Collection of Anthropological 
Photographs from Calcutta. 
The communication was a demonstration rather than an original paper. The 
photographs shown on the screen and as prints form part of a large collection 
recently made in the laboratories of the Zoological Survey of India in the Indian 
Museum. They have been taken with a fixed camera and represent the whole 
body, in three positions, of living men belonging to a number of races and 
combinations of races. The preparation of similar series of photographs in 
other centres was advocated and the application of the figures obtained was illus- 
trated, in reference particularly to the form of the trunk among the Malays 
and to head-form in the Armenians. 
Wednesday, September 14. 
19. Miss R. M. Freminc.—Sex and Growth Features in Racial 
Analysis. 
Standards of race distinction need to be modified in the case of women 
because they tend as a sex to have a higher cephalic index, a deeper degree of 
pigmentation, and less marked bony development of the skull. The cephalic 
index varies with growth, and in both sexes there is a marked tendency 
towards greater growth in width of skull than in length, i.e. towards gradual 
increase of cephalic index. There is, however, a sex difference as to the ages 
at which decided alterations in skull form, in shape of forehead, and in coloration 
take place, 
20. Mr. Avex. SurHerLAND.—The Brock of Cogle, Watten, Caithness. 
Animal remains found in the Brock have been submitted to Prof. T. H. 
Bryce and identified by him as being bones of ox, sheep, red deer, roe-deer (?), 
dog, and pig. 
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21, Canon J. A. MacCuntocy.—The Mingling of Fairy and Witch 
Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Scotland. 
Although the fairy and the witchcraft superstitions have, on the whole, 
separate sources, they had many things in common. Both were also regarded © 
by official and orthodox ecclesiasticism as connected with the devil and the — 
kingdom of darkness. The folk gradually accepted this view, at least with 
regard to witchcraft. The common aspects of the two beliefs, and the common 
ban under which both were placed, would inevitably tend to mix them up 
together. In Scotland, where persecution for witchcraft had seldom occurred 
before the Reformation period, this mingling of the two beliefs together with 
that in phantasms of the dead was thorough, and there is clear evidence of it 
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The evidence is found (1) in 
certain poems of the Reformation period; (2) in King James VI.’s Damono- 
logie; (8) in the records of witch trials. It shows that this curious mingling 
of fairydom and the kingdom of darkness was not confined to one district, but 
occurred in the Lowlands, in Perth-, Moray-, and Aberdeenshires, in the 
