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kee theory and practice of medicine, James Mooney. Folk-Lore of the 

 bones, D G. Brinton. Survivals of astrology, Munroe B. Snyder. 

 Teutonic folk-names in America, Albert H. Smyth. Derivations of 

 folk-tales, etc., in the United States, W. H. Babcock. Louisiana, Folk- 

 Lore stories, Alcee Fortier. 



The bibliographic notices and references to sources of information in 

 the fFournal of American Folk-Lore, place the student immediately' in 

 relation with home and foreign literature upon this most popular branch 

 of anthropology. 



The first congress of folk-lorists was opened in Paris on the 29th 

 July, at the Trocadero. The occasion of the exposition brought togetlier 

 French, Spaniards, Italians, Russians, Poles, Finns, Swedes, Englisli, 

 American, and Chinese. The officers of the congress were: President, 

 Charles Ploix ; vice-presidents, Bruyere, de Kialle, Leland, Dagomanor, 

 ISTutt, Prato, Nyerop, Tchengkitong; secretary, Sebillot. The subse- 

 quent meetings were at the Mairie of the sixth arrondissement, near St. 

 Sulpice. Tne question of classification, tabulation, and anal^'sis were 

 referred to a committee. 



The next congress will be held in London, 1891. 



The Folk-Lore Society of London, the most active of all the organiza- 

 tions devoted to this branch of anthropology, held its annual meeting 

 on Tuesday, November 26. The policy of the society has been carried 

 out in two directions, (1) the systematic collection of the remnants of 

 British Folk-Lore, and (2) the classification of general folk-lore in such 

 a shape that the scientific value of each item may be tested and exam- 

 ined. 



As the Folk-Lore Journal in its present shape did not sufficiently rep- 

 resent the scientific aims of the society, it was decided to issue the 

 journal under a new title. Folk-lore. The Archneological Review will be 

 fused into the new publication. 



The prospectus gives a good analysis of Folk-lore as iu is regarded 

 by the English Society, and is here appended: (1) Original articles, 

 whether collections of facts or expositions of theory. (2) Reprints of 

 English material, not easily accessible, and translations of little read 

 languages. (3) A record of the progress of study in folk-lore and in 

 allied branches of science. This record will comprise: {a) A bibliog- 

 raph}' of English and non-English books relating to folk-lore, mythol- 

 ogy, archaic and savage institutions, mediieval romantic literature, 

 archaic history, etc. (h) Summaries of contents of folk-lore periodicals 

 and citation of articles of interest to the folk-lorist in general period- 

 icals, (c) Reports on well-defined sections of folk-lore, to be issued at 

 stated times, briefly summing up the progress and results of study 

 witliin each section during the interval from one report to another, 

 each section to be intrusted to a member of the society, who will make 

 himself responsible for tln^ production of the report. 



