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 2 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17th, 1903.

(Prof. York Powell) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Dr. A, S. Cuming, Mrs. Cartwright, Miss Marsden, Mr. Carey Drake, and the Michigan State Library as members of the Society was announced.

The resignations of Mr, O. Elton, Mr. J. Rogers Rees, and Mr. R. Blakeborough were also announced.

Miss E. M. Grafton exhibited a corn-baby from Harston, in Cambridgeshire [Plate III.], upon which Miss Burne offered some observations; and Mr. P. J. Heather exhibited some post-cards with photographs illustrative of marriage customs in Brittany.

The Chairman read a paper entitled "Some Folklore from Jerusalem" by Miss Goodrich Freer, and exhibited several objects illustrative of the paper, and presented by her to the Society, including a metal (silver) amulet, and a picture of Rachel's Tomb, with prayers encircling it, used as a charm; on which Dr. Gaster offered some observations.

The Secretary, in the absence of Mr. Nutt through illness, read a translation made by himself of the fourteenth-century Latin MS. discovered by Professor Kittredge in the Bodleian Library upon which Mr. Nutt's promised paper on "Arthur and the Werwolf" was based [p. 40]; and a discussion followed, in which Dr. Gaster, Mr. Gomme, and the President took part.

The meeting terminated with votes of thanks to Miss Grafton, Miss Goodrich Freer, Mr. Heather, and Mr. Milne for their papers, exhibits, and presentations.

The following books and pamphlets which had been presented to the Society since the 24th June were laid upon the table, viz.:

Iowa Journal of History and Politics, October 1903, presented by the Iowa State Historical Society;