Mr. W. Crooke read a paper entitled "The Legends of Krishna;" and in the discussion which followed Colonel Temple, Miss Annis Lennoys, Mr, Jacobs, Mr. Nutt, Mr. Kennedy, and the President took part.
Vol. ii., part 3, of the Madras Government Museum Publications, Anthropology, by Edgar Thurston, presented to the Society by the Madras Government, was laid upon the table.
A paper on "Devonshire Folklore," by Lady Rosalind Northcote, and a paper entitled "More Folklore from the Hebrides," by the Rev. Malcolm MacPhail, were also read.
Thanks were voted to the authors of the papers and to the Madras Government.
TUESDAY, JUNE 27th, 1899.
A joint Meeting of the Anthropological Institute and the Folk-Lore Society was held at 3, Hanover Square.
Mr. C. H. Read, F.S.A., the President of the Institute, having taken the Chair, explained that the Joint Meeting had been called by the desire of the Folk-Lore Society to welcome Professor Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago, and he would therefore vacate the chair in favour of the President of the Folk-Lore Society.
a particular manner, namely of two hoops of wood fastened together at right angles, and supported on the end of a pole. On these hoops flowers and green foliage are bound. To the centre of the garland a doll is suspended, and from some part of the hoops a string of birds' eggs. The garland is carried by an older child who is not gaudily dressed, part of whose duty it is to take care of the children. The latter are usually members of one family. It is noteworthy, that although there may be ten or a dozen garlands perambulating the town, they all emanate from one particular district, and from it alone, namely the quarter occupied by the fishing population. The local appellation of "May Ladies" suggests the May Queen. The birds' eggs and suspended doll have probably a much deeper significance than is at first sight apparent. Nor is it probable that the collection of small coin in the money-boxes is entirely a modern innovation."—Charles B. Plowright, M.D., President. Trans. N. and N. Nat. Soc., vol. vi. p. 107.
