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 Minutes of Meetings. 267

WEDNESDAY, MAY 11th, 1910. Sir E. W. Brabrook (Vice-President) in the Chair.

At a Meeting of the Society held this day, the Chairman proposed, Dr. M. Gaster seconded, and it was unanimously resolved, that the President be requested to draw up, sign, and submit to H.M. the King, on behalf of the Folk-Lore Society, a loyal and dutiful address, expressing the sorrow of the members on the occasion of the demise of His late Most Excellent Majesty King Edward VII., and their devotion to His Majesty King George V., upon whom the Crown has devolved.

The meeting then adjourned until Wednesday, June ist.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1st, 1910. The President (Miss C. S. Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the Meetings of April 20th and May nth were read and confirmed.

The President reported that, in pursuance of the resolu- tion passed on May nth, she had prepared an address to H.M. King George V. on the lines indicated in the resolution, and had forwarded the same to the Home Secretary for presentation (p. 228).

The President announced the tragic death of Mr. Alfred Nutt by drowning in the Seine, near Melun, in attempting to rescue his son, on May 23rd, and moved a resolution in the following terms, viz. : — " That this meeting has heard with the deepest regret of the sad but heroic death of their old and valued colleague, Mr. Alfred Nutt, one of the original members and founders of the Society, to which his