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 CORRESPONDENCE.

Exhibition of Italian Ethnography at Rome in 191 i.

The attention of students of folklore should be drawn to the project set on foot last year for holding, in the year 191 1, at Rome, an exhibition of Italian ethnography. An influential committee has been formed, and has issued a pamphlet describing the aims of the exhibition and containing minute instructions as to the collection of the various objects to be exhibited. When the ex- hibition closes, it is intended to remove the collection to the permanent Museum of Italian Ethnography at Florence.

The subjects to be illustrated in the exhibition include every- thing related to the life of the people in the different provinces of the peninsula and the adjacent islands : personal matters like the style of hairdressing, artificial deformations, tattooing, clothing, ornaments, and objects of personal use ; dwellings, both perma- nent and for temporary use, such as for watching the herds or hunting, and granaries and other stores whether above ground or below ; furniture, hearths and chimneys, special modes of kindling or maintaining fire, and culinary and other domestic utensils ; food and its preparation ; agriculture (including vintage), pastoral life, hunting, and fishing, with the amulets and superstitious practices in connection with these ancient occupations as well as the appli- ances of more material utility ; individual and domestic industries, and rustic trade and other transactions of contract regulated by traditional custom ; taUies and other mnemonic records of various classes ; signals at a distance ; means of transport and locomotion ; traditional etiquette, hospitality, ceremonial customs, and social relations of the different classes and between employers of various kinds and employed ; ritual gifts and payments ; survivals, traces,