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Minutes of Meetings.

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17th, 1912.

The President (Mr. W. Crooke) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. Henry Balfour, Mr. S. Casson, the Rev. H. R. Evans, Mr. W. T. Searle, and Major A. J. N. Tremearne, as members of the Society, and the admission of the Los Angeles Public Library as a subscriber to the Society, were announced.

The resignations of Mr. A. W. Johnston, the Rev. J. R. W. Thomas, and Mrs. A. J. N. Tremearne were also announced.

Mr. T. W. Thompson read a paper on "The Ceremonial Customs of the British Gypsies," and in the discussion which followed Dr. Gaster, the Rev. George Hall, Mr. Wright, and the President took part.

The meeting concluded with a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Thompson for his paper.