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The Honourable Raymond West, C.S., M.A., LL.D., F.R.G.S.,

PRESIDENT OF THE B. B. ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY,

IN HUMBLE RECOGNITION OF THE INTEREST EVINCED BY THAT HONOURABLE GENTLEMAN IN THE ADVANCEMENT OF ASIATIC STUDIES IN BOMBAY,

This Discourse

ON THE

ALLEGED PRACTICE OF NEXT-OF-KIN MARRIAGES IN OLD IRÂN

IS, WITH HIS GRACIOUS PERMISSION,

most respectfully inscribed

BY

THE AUTHOR.