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 We regret to announce the deaths of the following well-known students of folklore:

, Litt.D., teacher of Bengali in the University of Cambridge, entered the Indian Civil Service in 1873, and served until 1900, chiefly in Assam. He published a collection of Kachari folk-tales, of Chittagong proverbs, and other works on the languages of North-East India. No contemporary Englishman had a wider knowledge or a more just and discriminating appreciation of Bengali literature, and none was more delighted to watch and promote the advance of the Bengali. To great knowledge of oriental subjects he added a charming personality, and he was ever ready to assist students in the subjects of which he made a speciality. Several contributions by him on the folklore of Bengal have appeared in the pages of Folk-Lore. 

The following communication has been received from Prof. W. R. Halliday: “By the death of in February 1920 scholarship suffered an irreparable loss. He possessed a singularly alert mind, unflagging industry, a retentive memory and a quick imagination disciplined by a keen critical sense and a rare intellectual honesty. Fertile in suggestion, he yet invariably subjected hypotheses, his own no less ruthlessly than another’s, to the acid test of fact; patient and meticulous accuracy distinguished his method of work. Much of his learning has inevitably died with him, but from his papers, kept with a beautiful order, a considerable harvest can be gleaned and will eventually be published. They include an illustrated history of the monasteries of Mt. Athos and several valuable papers upon Levantine numismatics. But more considerable in bulk, in interest and importance are his studies in 