continent.

The Society holds annual meetings, at which reports are received and
papers read.

The membership fee is three dollars, payable on the 1st of January in
each year.

Members are entitled to receive the Journal of American Folk-Lore, a
periodical appearing quarterly, and of which eight volumes have already
been issued, each volume containing about three hundred and fifty octavo
pages. The Journal is published for the Society by Houghton, Mifflin &
Co., Boston and New York.

The work of the Society includes publication and research in regard to
the religious ceremonies, ethical conditions, mythology, and oral
literature of Indian tribes; collection of the traditions of stocks
existing in a relatively primitive state, and the collation of these with
correct accounts of survivals among civilized tribes; gathering of the
almost wholly unrecorded usages and beliefs of Central and South American
races; the comparison of aboriginal American material with European and
Asiatic conceptions, myths, and customs; a study of survivals among
American negroes, including their traditional inheritance from Africa,
and its modification in this Continent; preservation of the abundant
folk-lore of the French and Spanish regions of North America; record of
the oral traditions of the English-speaking population, and description
of communities now or lately existing under isolated conditions.

The publication of the Memoirs cannot be met from the regular fees of the
Society, but is rendered possible by annual contributions to the
Publication Fund, of ten dollars, for such time as individual subscribers
may be pleased to continue such subscription.

Subscribers are enrolled as members of the Society, and receive all its
publications, issued after the date of subscription, including the
Journal and Memoirs.

A list of Annual Subscribers is printed in the Journal, and in each
volume of the Memoirs, so long as subscription continues.

Persons willing to assist in this work of publication, by the annual
payment, during such time as they may please, of ten dollars (which sum,
it will be understood, includes the annual membership fee of the
Society), are requested to remit their subscriptions to the Treasurer,
John H. Hinton, M.D., No. 41 West 32d St., New York, N.Y.

Transcriber's Note

The following errors and inconsistencies have been maintained.

Misspelled words and typographical errors:

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