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TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY. Vol. XL] SEPTEMBER, 1900. [No. III.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25th, 1900. The President (Mr. E. Sidney Hartland) in the Chair.

The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The resignation of Mrs. Brough was announced.

The election of Mrs. F. L. Naylor and Miss W. Faraday as new Members was also announced.

Mr. Lundgren exhibited and explained some totems, fetishes, and toys of the Hopi Tribe of North American Indians, into which he had been adopted, and answered a number of questions as to the significance of certain of the objects addressed to him by Messrs. Clodd, Gomme, Nutt, Myers, Professor Haddon, and the President. Mr. N. W. Thomas exhibited a photograph representing a harvest scene at Saetersdal, in Southern Norway, which he pre- sented to the Society.

Votes of thanks were accorded to Mr. Lundgren and Mr. Thomas for their exhibits.

Mr. Thomas then read a paper entitled, " Animal Super- stitions and Totemism" {infra, p. 227), and in the discussion which followed Messrs. Nutt, Gomme, and Lundgren, Pro- fessor Haddon, and the President took part.

Mr. Thomas having replied, a vote of thanks was accorded to him for his paper.

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