of Edinburgh , Session 1885-86. 
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Council to ascertain the individual opinions of the Fellows of the 
Society on the whole question of the hour of meeting of the Society, 
and to communicate the result to the Annual Meeting. 
Monday , 3rd May 1886. 
EOBEET GEAY, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. Motes on the Waganda Tribe of Central Africa. By 
Eobert W. Eelkin, M.D., F.E.G.S., Fellow of the An- 
thropological Societies of London and Berlin, &c. 
(Plate XXVII.) 
The paper which I have the honour of presenting to you to-night 
is similar in construction to those I have previously brought under 
your notice on the For and Madi Tribes. 
The Waganda are very different from the tribes further north, 
and a description of them will I think aptly illustrate the very 
marked contrasts presented by the various Central African Tribes. 
As in the former papers, I have written from notes of my own 
observations made when in the country, and from information 
supplied to me by people of the tribe. While I do not give any- 
thing that has not formed the subject of my personal investigation, 
it is yet impossible to avoid mentioning matters and details which 
have been more or less touched on by other travellers. 
Uganda occupies a position to the north, north-west, and west of 
the Victoria Xyanza. It is bounded on the north by the 1st 
degree of Xorth latitude, on the south by the Kitangule Eiver, on 
the east by the Mile, and on the west by the 31st degree of East 
longitude. The country is divided into three provinces— Uddu in 
the south, Singo in the west, and Changwe in the east; and to this 
latter province must be reckoned about 400 islands, called by the 
collective name of Sesse. 
The western frontier of the country is very ill-defined, and may 
be found to extend considerably beyond the limit here assigned to 
