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Total 37. 



Messrs. Henry Holgate and Frederick B. Hodgins were 

 elected members. 



The President read the following paper : — 



NOTES ON THE EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF ABORIGINAL 

 WOMEN IN ALL LATITUDES. 



BY PERCY W. P. MATHEWS, LL.D., M.R.C.S.E., ETC., 



Dominion Coroner for the N. W. Territories, and Medical Officer to the Honourable Hudson's 



Bay Company. 



It is for the purpose of drawing attention to the early marriages of 

 the more precocious natives of tropical climates, as well as to the mar- 

 riages of mere children here, in the sub-arctic regions, that I pen 

 these few notes, and also to become enlightened myself, by possibly 

 giving rise to some discussion in connection with a subject that can- 

 not be otherwise than interestina:. 



