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Kumbo, and half the women of Cycle B, namely Kubbi, 

 and with them have constructed Cycle A of Table IX. 

 Taking the first man in the " Husband" column, Murri, we 

 see that his son is Ippai, who belongs to the same cycle as 

 his father. Ippai marries Kubbi, a woman of his mother's 

 cycle, A. And when we look for Murri's No. Ill and No. 

 IV wives they are found in Cycle B. 



Further study of Table IX would reveal to us the 

 remorseless fact that quite regardless of the cycle or the 

 section from which Murri gets his wife, the descent of the 

 cycle and the section of his offspring is determined by their 

 mother. It is also manifest that notwithstanding our 

 repeated attempts to divide a tribe into two such parts, 

 that the men of one part shall marry the women of the 

 other part, and such women only, the conclusion forces 

 itself upon us that there is no absolute law of exogamy 

 which answers the conditions. 



Corrections. 



In my article on "Sociology of Some Australian Tribes," 

 in Vol. xxxix., of this Journal, the reader is asked to make 

 the following corrections : — 



Page 120, line 25, for Butha read Ippatha. 



In lines 28 and 29, same page, transpose the words 

 Ippatha and Butha. 



In a table published by me at p. 84 in Vol. xxxn. of this 

 Journal, respecting the sociology of the Koogobathy tribe 

 on the Mitchell River, Northern Queensland, some errors 

 were made, and I wish to substitute the following correct 

 table : — 



Husband. Wife. Offspring. 



Jury Barry Mungilly 



Ararey Mungilly Barry 



Barry Jury Ararey 



Mungilly Ararey Jury 



In the Koogobathy tribe, the descent of the children is 

 in all cases through the mothers. 



