ex Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. (March, 1912.] 
local, Ethnic, or Eponymous, or Totemic origin. If then we 
eliminate totemismas arelicof the pastand accept the Occupa- 
tional theory of the origin of caste we can see for ourselves in 
active progress to-day among the casteless tribes of India such 
as this very Sirkhi Wallah group, a caste system in the 
making. And caste in India, in whatever form or direction its 
evolution, is dominated by the jus connubti. In short, the 
constant creation of separate connubial groups in modern 
Hinduism has its basis and origin in the instinct which taught 
man to seek his bride and secure her forcibly if necessary from 
another camp—which is marriage by capture—which is Exoga- 
my in its most primitive form. 
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The Adjourned Meeting of the Medical Section of the 
Society was held at the Society’s Rooms on Wednesday, the 
13th March, 1912, at 9-30 p.m. 
Magor L. Roazrs, C.I.E., I.M.S., in the chair. 
The following members were present :— 
Captain Green Armytage, I.M.S., Dr. U. N. Brahmachari, 
Dr. C. H. Elmes, Captain D. McCay, I.M.S., Captain A. H. 
Proctor, I.M.S., Captain H. B. Steen, I.M.S., Captain ic da 
Sandes, I.M.S., Honorary Secretary. 
Visitors :—Dr. J. N. Das, Dr. C. H. B. Thompson. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
I.—Capt. Proctor showed some Skiagrams of Fractures 
about joints. 
II.—The following papers were read :— 
1. Some notes on the morbidity of lying-in cases in Calcutta. 
— By Cart. H. B. Steen, I.M.S. 
2. A Case of Blackwater Fever—By Dr. U. N. Brama- 
cHAkI, M.A., M.D., Ph.D. 
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