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tribal rules, &c.---but of sin in the individual, hurting the 
individual himself, there is no trace, I think 
any idea of sin as an offence against spirits or gods. "There are 
good and bad spirits—but they all seem really to be obnoxious, 
ùe., causing disease and calamity; and they are worshipped by 
sacrifice and ritual, or by sacrifice and exorcism (a more suitable 
term, perhaps). 
Here the Buddhist doctrine of transmigration and a Hades has 
affected the Lolos ; but one can see it is a late ee and 
has no bearing on their lives. They have no idols; and their 
only priests are the Pé-mo or Exorcists, who are a in virtue 
f the fact that they can read the appropriate rituals, 2.e., 
Pé-mo = priest = exorcist = literatus. The priest and the scholar 
are not as yet differentiated. Witches, of course, occur. They 
have also an ordeal which is curious. It is also very difficult to 
account for their legends of the deluge, of Cyclopean men with 
one eye, &c 
DCXLVIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. Isaac HENRY BURKILL, M.A., late Temporary Assistant 
in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, has been appointed 
Principal Assistant in the Director's Office, Mr. Burkill was a 
scholar of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and Assistant 
Curator of the University Herbarium. He received the Walsingham 
medal in 1894, 
Mr. HENRY HAROLD WELCH PEARSON has been appointed 
by the Secretary of State for India in Council, Assistant (for 
agr in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, in succession 
tapf, promoted to be a Principal Assistant. Mr. Pearson 
i Assistant Curator of the University Herbarium, Cente 
Smart Student, Gonville and Caius College, and, as Wort 
Travelling Student, visited Ceylon in 1897. 
Mr. THOMAS WILLIAM BROWN, a member of the Gardening 
Staff of the Royal Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary 
of State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Acting 
Curator of the Botanic Station at Aburi, Gold Coast, during the 
absence on leave of the Curator, Mr. W. H. Johnson. 
Mr. J. R. WIGMAN, son of the Curator of the Botanic Gardens, 
Buitenzorg, Java, entered Kew for a course of training in 
d has been appointed Curator a anp en Gardens, Para- 
, in Dutch Guiana. He “I am forming je 
den on the site of an a Pe plantatton: half an 
