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positive evidence. Those interested in nervous anatomy may 
find an exhaustive article on the central nervous system of the 
baleen whales, by G. A. Guldberg, in the Forhandlingar of the 
and the lateral-line organ of the electric cat-fish in the Sitzungs- 
berichte of the Berlin Academy of Science for April, 1886. 
We are concerned here with the doctor or medicine man, who, 
in Australia, Africa or America, relies upon his influence and 
power over the spirit world to work cure or to save life. : 
In our own country patient study is revealing much concerning 
(better weather-makers), magicians, augurs, fortune-tellers, en- 
chanters, priests, personators, diviners, etc. 
Now these can readibly be divided into two classes or func- 
tions, viz., those who see into, understand and reveal the spirit 
world; and those who have more or less control over it, compel- 
ling it to do their bidding. 
€ medicine man, doctor, sorcerer, wizard, fetish man are all 
of the latter class. Whatever disease and death may be, whether 
merely the person or spirit of some noxious thing or an inde- 
pendently existing spirit, one of the powerful charmers can in- 
duce or compel it to do his bidding, either by direct command or 
by some diplomatic action called ic. . 
In the collection of material for a scientific investigation of 
— this class of persons, I have found it convenient to adopt the fol- 
lowing questions: 
ft, What ste heacradt called and Sigs oial dank do way aad. 
2. By what rites or initiations do they attain to the privileges of their class, 
_-MEdited by Prof, Oris T. Mason, National Museum, Washino1, D. Ç. 
