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86 Minutes of Meetings.

The meeting terminated with a hearty vote of thanks to Miss Werner for her paper and to Mr. Wright for exhibiting the headdress.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16tli, 1909. The President (Miss C. S. Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The enrolment of the Societa di Etnografia Italiana and the University of Pennsylvania IMuseum as subscribers to the Society was announced,

Mrs. Shakespear exhibited and explained the use of the following objects collected among the hill tribes of Assam, viz. : — from the Lushais, a rain coat, a brass model of a feast, two siphons for drawing off rice beer, a tiger-head shield, a pair of ear-rings, a pipe, and two powder horns; from the Manipuris, dice, a hairpin, and a headdress; and, from the Hakka Chins, a fighting dao, a'hd a horn for nicotine water.

Mrs. Shakespear then read a paper by her husband, Col. J. Shakespear, entitled " Folk-tales of the Lushais and their neighbours" (p. 388), and aftervvards exhibited a number of lantern slides illustrative of the people and their homes. In the discussion which followed Mr. T. C. Hodson, Dr. Gaster, and the President took part.

The meeting terminated with a hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. Shakespear for exhibiting and explaining her objects, and for reading Col. Shakespear's paper.

The Secretary reported the following additions to the Library since the November meeting, viz. :

The Exploration of BiisJiey Cavern near Cavetozun, Maryland, by K. Peabody, presented by the Author ; Analecta Bollandia?ia, Vol. 28, Parts i and 2, acquired