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 Minutes of Meeting, 39

Dr. Gaster exhibited 150 chap-books and some broad- sides and folk-songs he had collected during a recent visit to Italy, and related some of his experiences while collect- ing them.

The Secretary read a note by Mr. C. G. Seligmann on a Bull-Roarer in Ceylon.

Mr. R. R. Marett then read a paper entitled, " Preani- mistic Religion ; " and a discussion followed, in which Mr. Clodd, Mr. Nutt, Dr. Gaster, and the Chairman took part.

A vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Marett for his paper.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20th, 1899. Mr. G. L. GOMME, Vice-President, in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. T. Thorp, Mr. A. W. Ebbs, Mrs. C. Bond, and Miss K. Higford, as members of the Society was announced.

The deaths of Dr. Brinton and the Rev. E. Owen, and the resignations of Mr. W. J. Knowles, Mr. E. H. Man, and Mr. J. A. Strong, were also announced.

Mr. C. A. Myers exhibited a number of lantern-slides illustrating the scenery and some types and customs of the residents of Murray Island, Torres Straits ; and subse- quently read a paper entitled "An Account of Two Obsolete Ceremonies in the Medicine and Sorcery of Murray Island." In the discussion which followed, Mr. Nutt, Mr. Higgens, Miss Burne, and the Chairman took part. The Meeting concluded wdth a vote of thanks to Mr. Myers for his paper.

The following books were reported as having been pre- sented to the Society since the June Meeting, viz. :

Llle d' Amorgos, by H. Hauttecoeur ; A Study of the Census of the Pueblo of Cochiti, The Little Pottery Objects of Lake diapala, Notched Bones fro?n Mexico, The Mapa