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 TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY. Vol. XXI.]. SEPTEMBER, 1910. No. III.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20th, 1910.

The President (Miss C. S. Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. G. G. Knowles, Mr. S. Lister Petty, and Mr. J. G. Tolhurst as members of the Society, and the enrolment of the Lund University Library as a subscriber to the Society, were announced.

Mrs. H. Hamish Spoer read a paper entitled " Notes on the Marriage Customs of the Bedu and Fellahin" (pp. 270-95), and in the discussion which followed Dr. Rivers, Mr. Tabor, Mr. Lovett, and Miss Rashleigh took part. Mrs. Spoer exhibited a number of bridal necklaces, amulets, and other objects illustrative of her paper.

The following objects were also exhibited : —

By the President and Mr. E. Lovett: — Some hand and evil-eye charms from Arabia and elsewhere.

By Mr. A. R. Wright : — A collection of fifty finger-rings

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