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minutes of the December Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of the Rev. J. Wood Brown, Miss Edith Carey, Miss F. Kirby Green, Mr. W. R. Halliday. Mr. A. M. Hocart, The Hon. Mrs. G. Macdonald, and Mr. Hutton Webster as members of the Society was announced.

The murder of Mr. A. M. T. Jackson, and the resignations of Mr. S. L. Bensusan, Mr. A. G. Chater, Mr. G. W. Ferrington and Dr. D. M'Kenzie were also announced.

Mr. K Sidney Hartland, on behalf of Prof F. Starr exhibited (1) two figures, in black wax pierced with pins of persons (in one case a witch) whom it was desired to injure by means of sympathetic magic, from near Zacoalco in western Mexico; and (2) an amulet of bamboo and shells suspended under the eaves of a house by the Ilocanos and other tribes of Agoo, La Union Province, Luzon,