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The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

The death of Sir A. Wollaston Franks was announced.

The election of Mr. W. A. Craigie and Miss K. Carson as new members was also announced.

Mr. W. Crooke's work on The Tribes and Castes of the North-West Provinces and Oudh (4 vols.), presented by the Indian Government to the Society's library, was laid on the table.

The President, in the course of some introductory remarks, spoke of the emergence of the science of folklore during the period included in the reign of Queen Victoria, the completion of whose sixtieth year had just been celebrated.

The Secretary read the following communication from Mr. W. F. Kirby on a funeral custom of the Chinese, and exhibited the two slips of paper referred to therein: