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minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Colonel W. Hanna, Mr. Cecil J. Sharp, and Mr. J. M. Woolsey as members of the Society, and the enrolment of the Brooklyn Public Library as a subscriber to the Society, were announced.

The resignations of Lieut-Colonel H. R. H. Southam, the Rev. Stopford A. Brooke, and Miss Verhorff were also announced.

Miss Lina Eckenstein read a paper entitled "Personal Amulets (European)," which was illustrated by a number of amulets from Italy, Bavaria, Belgium, the Balkan Peninsula, and elsewhere, exhibited by Mr. Hildburgh and Mr. Lovett. In the discussion which followed, Mr. Hildburgh, Mr. Calderon, Mr. Wright, and the Chairman took part. The meeting terminated with hearty votes of thanks to Miss Eckenstein for her paper, and to Mr. Hildburgh and Mr. Lovett for illustrating it.