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Rh Miss Eyre exhibited a number of Burmese dolls, which she presented to the Society, for which a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to her.

The Chairman exhibited the following Tibetan amulets and charms, &c., viz.: (1) a table prayer-wheel, (2) a hand prayer-wheel, (3) a luck flag, (4) a charm ring, (5) a lady's pin with Tibetan symbol, (6) a divining bolt, (7) a thigh-bone trumpet, (8) a skull drum used on the altars of fiend deities and in Mystery plays, (9) Tsa-cha, a rare Tibetan image of a fiend, made of clay and mixed with ashes of a Dalai Lama and ground up for medicine, &c., (10) a rosary of the 16 Sthavira, the apostles of Buddhism, made of peach-stones, and (11) a skull-bone rosary. [See pp. 332-334, and Plates VI. and VII.].

Miss Pamela Colman Smith recited some Annancy Tales as told her in Jamaica, and a discussion followed, in which Miss Burne, Mr. Tabor, Mr. Andrews, Mr. Thomas, and Miss Eyre took part.

The Meeting terminated with a hearty vote of thanks to Miss Smith for her recitation.

The following books which had been presented to the Society since the April Meeting were laid on the table:

Census of India, vol. i. (Ethnographical Indices, by H. H. Risley), presented by the Government of India; The American Antiquarian, vol. xxv., Nos. 3 and 4; The Indian Antiquary, vols. xxx. and xxxi.; The Antiquary, vols, xxxvii. and xxxviii.; Schweitzerisches Archiv für Volkskünde, vols. vi. and vii.; and La Tradition, 1903, vol. xvii.