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Col. Shakespeare exhibited a series of paintings illustrative of the costumes of tribes inhabiting the Manipur Valley and the surrounding hills.
Miss E. Richardson read a note concerning the use of Megalithic circles; and in the discussion which followed Mr. W. Bonser, Mr. Wright, Prof. Baudîs, Mr. Major, Mr. Carline and the President took part.
Mr. Carline exhibited a pair of primitive clog-sandals from Nyasa and a cupping horn from M‘alabani Tanganyika, East Africa.
Mr. Joseph J. MacSweeney read a paper on “The Comparative and Literary Study of the Ballad.”
A paper by Prof. Sayce entitled “Cairene and Upper Egyptian Folk-Lore”, was also read.
