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TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY.

Vol. XV.] SEPTEMBER, 1904. [No. Ill,

WEDNESDAY, MAY 18th, 1904.

Mr. G. Laurence Gomme (Vice-President) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. The death of the President, Professor York Powell, was announced, and on the motion of the Chairman, seconded by Professor Tylor, and supported by IVIr. Clodd, it was unanimously Resolved

" That the members of the Folk-Lore Society assembled at their Ordinary Meeting in May, 1904, hereby place on record their sense of the loss the historical world has suffered, and the loss which the Folk- Lore Society in particular suffers, by the lamented death of Professor Frederick York Powell, President of the Society, and they beg to lay before Miss Powell and the Professor's mother their expression of the love and respect which they one and all entertained for their late President." The Secretary read the following Resolution passed by the Council of the Anthropological Institute at their Meet- ing held on the 4th May, 1904:

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