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 2 Minutes of Meetings.

of gold, brass, and copper taken from a royal tomb ; a nail fetish ; a harvest fetish ; a Janus-headed fetish cup from the Congo ; a horn and necklace from the Mangunga people ; and a mask from the upper Aruwimi river. The meeting concluded with a hearty vote of thanks to Mrs. French-Sheldon for her paper.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17tli, 1909. The President (Miss C. S. Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. W. G. Sullivan as a member of the Society was announced.

The deaths of Mrs. C. E. Levy and Mr. J. Tolhurst, and the resignations of Mrs. Cartwright, the Rev. F. C. Lambert, and Mr. A. E. Swanson were also announced.

Dr. W. H. R. Rivers read papers entitled " The Father's Sister in Oceania " (pp. 42-59) and " Some Notes on Magical Practices in the Banks' Islands," and in the discussion which followed Mr. A. R. Wright, Dr. Gaster, Mr. A. R. Brown, Mr. Tabor, the Rev. T. Lewis, and Mrs. French-Sheldon took part. The meeting terminated v»rith a hearty vote of thanks to Dr. Rivers for his paper.

The following objects illustrative of the folklore of Oceania were exhibited by Mr, A. R. Wright : — Sorcerer's book from the Batta tribe (Sumatra); two carved-wood deities and a medicine-man's silver mirror from Nias Island ; a dugong amulet from New Guinea ;