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Annual Public Address (given under the joint auspices of the University of Texas and the Texas Folk-Lore Society): Folk-Lore of the Central West, Doctor Louise Pound, University of Texas.

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President’s Address: Folk Thought and the Modern Mind, Professor Will H. Thomas, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas; This New American Language, Mr. Samuel B. Dabney, Houston, Texas; A Mexican Popular Ballad, Mr. W. A. Whatley, Ohio State University (read by Professor Lilia M. Casis of the University of Texas and sung by two University girls); Some Texas Songs, Dr. L. W. Payne, Jr., University of Texas; Superstitions of the Northern Seas, Mr. Hartman Dignowity, Denison, Texas; Two Legends of the Llano Country, Miss Julia Estill, Fredericksburg, Texas; Strokes Shared, Dr. J. R. Reinhard, University of Texas.

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Some Indigenous Architecture of Texas (illustrated by lantern slides), Professor Samuel E. Gideon, University of Texas; Negro Folk-Songs, sung by Austin negroes; Some Typical Buried Treasure Legends of Texas, with Notes Thereon, Mr. J. Frank Dobie, University of Texas; Some Negro Plantation Songs, Mr. John A. Lomax, Austin, Texas.


The Secretary made the following report: