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 258 Minutes of Meeting.

oxen ploughing at Elkstone, in the Cotswold Hills, taken by Dr. Oscar Clark, which the President said he hoped might be reproduced in Folk-Lore {see frontispiece), as an illustration of a custom fast dying out.

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

Traditional Poetry of the Finns, by Domenico Com- paretti, presented by the Hon. J. Abercromby ; Prelimi- nary Account of an Expedition to the Cliff Villages of the Red Rock Country and the Tusayan Ruins of Sikyatki and Awatobi, Arizona, in 1895, by J. Walter Fewkes, presented by the President ; and the following publications of the Smithsonian Institution, also presented by the President, viz. : (i) The Wooden Statue of Baron li Kamon-no-Kami Naosuke, Pioneer Diplomat of Japan, by A. Satoh ; A Study of Primitive Methods of Drilling, by J. D. McGuire ; The Golden Patera ofRennes, by Thomas Wilson ; and Mancala, the National Game of Africa, by Stewart Culin.

Thanks were ordered to be returned for the objects ex- hibited and for the gifts.

Miss Goodrich Freer read a paper entitled " The Powers of Evil in the Outer Hebrides," and a discussion followed, in which Mr. Nutt, Mr. Major, Mr. Gomme, and the President took part.

The President then reada paper by Miss A.Werner, entitled " The Tar-Baby Story : Variants from Central Africa," and in the discussion which followed Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Archi- bald Little took part.

The Meeting terminated with votes of thanks to Miss Goodrich Freer and Miss Werner for their papers.