General Meeting.] 458 [Jan. ifi, 
their abbreviated form, the author makes no claim to completeness 
in this description. As it is intended to be a record of events, 
no attempt is made at interpretations, which must be delayed 
until the whole scheme of the Tusayan ritual is worked out. 
Even then we must remember that the observations here recorded 
were made on one of the inhabited mesas, and that there are 
four other Tusayan pueblos yet to be investigated. It is neces- 
sary to know something of the character of the new fire observ- 
ances on the so-called middle mesa and at Oraibi before we 
attempt explanations, and only in this comparative way can 
we, I believe, advance with confidence in the treatment of the 
theoretical aspects of the study of rituals, for the meaning of the 
intricate rites which make these cei'emonials the most complicated 
survivals of aboriginal culture remaining among the Xorth Amei-i- 
can Indians. 
Genekal Meeting, .l.vNaTAKV Ki, 1895. 
President W. II. Niles in the chair. Sixty-nine persons 
present. 
Prof. E. S. Morse in a paper on Korean interviews gave many 
interesting details concerning the domestic life, educational 
methods, industries, religion, and superstitions of the Koreans. 
Professor Morse also read a letter from a Korean ambassador 
giving the writer's impressions of America and the Americans. 
Mr. Percival Lowell spoke of Korea and the Koreans, sketch- 
ing briefly the geography, climate, and various physical features 
of the peninsula; its population and many of the peculiar customs 
of the Koreans were also noted. 
Mr. Lowell showed a fine series of stereopticon views prepared 
from photographs which he had taken several years ago and 
of especial interest owing to the changes that will follow as 
a result of the Japan- China war. 
The following paper was read : — 
