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brief and interesting account of the Iroquois Ceremonial of Name 
Giving. It was written by Mr. J. O. Brant Sero. 
THURSDAY, APRIL 5th, 1900. 
President Thos. W. Reynolds, M. D., occupied the chair. 
Minutes of the Jast meeting were read and confirmed. 
Dr. T. W. J. Burgess was appointed to represent the Association 
at the coming meeting of The Royal Society of Canada. 
The Corresponding Secretary reported the receipt of a number 
of exchanges. 
Dr. R. Bruce Smith then read an interesting paper on the subject 
of Religion and Insanity. 
‘The paper entered into a careful and learned exposition of many 
cases of insanity supposed to have been caused by the influence of 
religious ideals. In these cases it was shown that dogma rather than 
religion was at the base of the fault, and that in all cases of insanity 
_there must, moreover, be some primary defect in the nervous 
organism. 
An interesting discussion followed. 
THURSDAY, APRIL roth, 1900. 
A special meeting of the Association was held w.th President 
Thos. W. Reynolds, M. D., occupying the chair. 
Rev. J. L. Gilmore, B. D., was introduced to the Association, 
and read an interesting and instructive paper on the Theology of 
Plato’s Republic. The sources from which the subject was derived 
were, said Mr. Gilmour, nature, science, human nature and emotions. 
The essayist divided the subject into five parts, dealing with each 
separately. ‘These were God, man, sin, salvation and the future. 
At the conclusion of the paper a general discussion took place 
and was participated in by a number of the members. 
Wm. C. Herriman, M. D., read a series of Natural History 
Notes from Mr. Wm. Yates, of Hatchley, which were written in Mr. 
Yates’ usual interesting and instructive style. 
