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Folk-Lore.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.



Vol. XX.]
JUNE, 1909.
[No. II.



WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17th, 1909.

The President (Miss Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the December Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. A. R. Brown, Mr. T. Hws Davies, Dr. T. E. Lones, Mr. P. Ramanathan, the Rev. S. Roscoe, Colonel Shakespear, and the Rev. J. R. M. Stephens as members of the Society, and the enrolment of Mr. H. Conrad and the Vienna Imperial Court Library as subscribers to the Society, were announced.

The resignations of Miss Cobham and Miss D. Torr were also announced.

Mr. T. C. Hodson read a paper entitled "Head-hunting among the Hill Tribes of Assam" [p. 132], and afterwards showed a series of lantern slides illustrative of the paper. In the discussion which followed, Sir Chas. Lyall, Mr.