488 PROGRESS OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1892. 



pologisclie Gesellschaffc the subject of ancient commerce is discussed 

 by G. Scliweinfurth and Merensky, the former dealing with the influ- 

 ence of western Asia and India upon Egypt, the hitter Avith India as 

 affecting- even the industries of Central Africa. 



The archteologists are also able to bring some noteworthy contribu- 

 tions to this enquiry. In America certain types of basketry and pot- 

 tery are known to have l)een lieculiar to certain linguistic stocks. But 

 examples of these are found elsewhere in ever-decreasing numbers as 

 they depart from this source. 



VIII. — EELIC+ION AND FOLK-LORE. 



On the 10th of April there was publicly opened in the Museum of 

 Arch;eology of the University of Pennsylvania a loan collection of 

 objects used in worship. It was divided into sections, that devoted to 

 the religions of Egypt being in charge of Mrs. Cornelius Stevenson, 

 that of India was arranged by Suamee Bhaskara Nand Saraswatee; 

 that of China by Chinese scholars, and so on, each section being as- 

 signed to some one specially fitted to the task.* 



The Ameri(;an Folk-lore Society was organized in I^ecember, 1892, 

 for the ensuing year, as folloAvs: 



President, Horatio Hale. 



Vice Presidents, Alcec, Fortier and D. P. Penhallow. 



Council, Franz Boas, H. Carrington Bolton, D. G. Brinton, A. F. Chamberlain, J. 

 Owen Dorsey, Alice C. Fletcher, George Bird Grinuell, Otis T. Mason, Frederick 

 W. Putnam. 



Secretaries, W. W. Newell, J. Walter Fewkes. 



Treasurer, John H. Hinton. 



Curator, Stewart Culin. 



The organ of this society is the Journal of American Folk-lore, 

 issued quarterly. In addition to the original papers and j^roceedings 

 of the society and its branches contained in this journal, there is a 

 resume of folk-lore throughout the world, and an extended bibli- 

 ography, which is especially good in periodical literature. 



The fourth annual meeting of the American Folk-lore Society was 

 held at the Thorndike Hotel, Boston, Mass., on December 28, and at 

 the Peabody Museum of American Ethnology and Archeology, Cam- 

 bridge, Mass., on December 29, Prof. Edward S. Morse presiding. The 

 following papers were read : 



Two Biloxi tales, J. Owen Dorsey. 



Relation of the tales of I^ncle Remns to the animal stories of other countries, 

 Adolph Gerber. 

 Survival of fire sacrifice among the Indians of Maine, Miss A. L. Alger. 

 Folklore of the Azorian Colonies, H. R. Lang. 

 A modern oracle and its prototypes, H. Carrington Bolton. 

 Tales of the Abeuakis, A. R. Tisdale. 

 Chippewa tale of the end of Hiawatha, H. H. Kidder. 

 Pawnee mythology, G. B. Grinnell. 



*See printed catalogue, 2md. Science, N. Y., xix., 225. 



