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TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY. Vol. XXL] MARCH, 1910. [No. I.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 1909. The President (Miss C. S. Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. R. H. Anderson, Major H. R. Brown, Mr. J. A. Fallows, Mr. W. Mitchell, Mr. R. H. Stephenson, and the Rev. J. H. Weeks as members of the Society was announced.

The death of Mr. J. B. Andrews and the resignations of Mr. I. Abrahams, Miss Jackson, Mr. G. P. Sneddon, and Mrs. J. G. Speakman were also announced.

Mrs. M. French-Sheldon, F.R.G.S., read a paper entitled " Some Secret Societies and Fetishes in Africa," and a discussion followed in which Miss A. Werner, Mr. A. R. Wright, Mr. Tabor, and the President took part. Mrs. French-Sheldon exhibited numerous objects illustrative of her paper, amongst which were: — the coat worn by the executioner of King Prempeh of Ashanti ; a burial casket

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