The Meeting terminated with votes of thanks to Mr. Lovett and Miss Sykes for their papers, and to Miss Violet Turner for her exhibition.

The following books and pamphlets which had been presented to the Library since the last Meeting of the Society were laid on the table, viz. :

1. Schweizerisches Archiv für Volkskunde, March, Igo1. 2. Y Cymmrodor, vol xiv., presented by the Cymmrodorion Society. 3. Archivio 3. Archivio della R. società Romana, vol. 23, parts 3 and 4, presented by the Società. 4. Journal of the Anthropological Institute, vol. xxx. (new series iii.), 1900.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 15th, 1901.

The PRESIDENT (Mr. E. W. Brabrook) in the Chair. THE minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. The election of the following new members announced, viz.: Mr. J. L. Freeborough and the Reading Public Library.

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The Chairman referred in sympathetic terms to the loss the science of Anthropology and Folklore has sustained by the deaths of the Rev. Dr Chalmers and Miss Christian Maclagan.

Mr. E. Lovett exhibited some crescents and discs used as amulets and charms in various parts of the world.

Miss Burne also exhibited some charms against the Evil Eye from Portugal and Italy.

Mr. F. T. Elworthy read a paper entitled "Dischi Sacri," of which he exhibited a number of specimens, and illustrated his lecture by lantern slides, from the figures given in his work Horns of Honour. A discussion followed, in which Dr. Gaster, Mr. Kirby, Dr. Ranking, 1 Reviewed in Folklore, vol. xi., p. 402.

Miss Burne, the Rev. Cornish, and the President took part.

The Meeting terminated with votes of thanks to Mr. Lovett and Miss Burne for their exhibits and to Mr. Elworthy for his paper.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19th, 1901.

Joint Meeting of the Anthropological Institute and Folk-Lore Society. The Chair was taken by Dr. A. C. HADDON, the President of the Institute.

THE minutes of the last Meeting of the Institute having been read and confirmed, Dr. Haddon vacated the Chair, which at his request was taken by Mr. Brabrook, the President of the Society.

The Chairman referred in sympathetic terms to the loss the Society has sustained in the death of Miss Florence Grove.

A collection of Musquakie beadwork, presented by Miss M. A. Owen to the Society, was exhibited, upon which Mr. E. S. Hartland offered some observations, the catalogue raisonné promised by Miss Owen not having yet reached England. In the discussion which followed, Mr. Henry Balfour (Curator of the Pitt-Rivers Museum at Oxford), Dr. Haddon, Colonel Temple, the Rev. J. Sibree, and the Chairman took part.

At the request of the Chairman Mr. Hartland undertook to convey to Miss Owen the expression of the very deep sense of gratitude the Society was under for her munificent donation.

A paper on "Japanese Gohei," by Mr. W. G. Aston, was read by Mr. Balfour, and a paper on "The Spirit of Vegetation," by Mr. E. Tregear, by Mr. N. W. Thomas.

The Meeting terminated with votes of thanks to Mr. Aston and Mr. Tregear for their papers.