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TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.
Vol. XX.] MARCH, 1909. [No. I.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19th, 1908. The President (Dr. Gaster) in the Chair.
The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.
The election of Mr. F. R. Sell, Mr. W. N. Weston, and Prof. Whitton Davies as members of the Society, and the enrolment of the San Francisco Public Library and the Royal Asiatic Society of Bombay as subscribers to the Society, were announced.
The resignations of Prof E. V. Arnold, Mrs. T B. Eden, Miss A. B. Henderson, Mr. J. H. Skilbeck, and Miss C. Verhorff, and the deaths of Mr. J. F. Hewitt and Miss Riicker, were also announced.
Mr. E. Lovett exhibited some tallies in use by the Southdown shepherds [pp. 65-6], and read two papers entitled " Superstitions and Survivals amongst Shepherds " [p. 64] and "Amulets from Costers' Barrows in London, Rome, and Naples " [p. 70], both papers being illustrated
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