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 M mutes of Meetings. 269

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15th, 1910.

The President (Miss C. S. Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the Meeting held on June ist having been read and confirmed, the President moved, Dr. Gaster seconded, and it was unanimously resolved, that a rule be added to the Rules of the Society as amended at the Special General Meeting of the Society held on January 17th, 1900, in the terms following, viz. : — " In all proceedings by or against the Society, the Society shall sue and be sued in the name of its Secretary for the time being."

A letter from Mrs. Nutt was read acknowledging the vote of condolence passed at the last meeting.

The election of Mr. H. J. Rose and Mr. G. Pendlebury as members of the Society was announced.

The death of Major McNair, and the resignation of Earl Beauchamp, were also announced.

Dr. Westermarck read a paper entitled " Moorish Beliefs and Customs," and in the discussion which followed Mrs. Spoer, Capt. A. J. N. Tremearne, Mr. Calderon, Dr. Gaster, Mrs. Grant, Mr. G. L. Gomme, Mr. Longworth Dames, Mr. Shearman Turner, Miss A. Werner, Major O'Brien, and the President took part.

Some amulets against the evil eye suspended in the doorways of small shops at Naples were exhibited by Mr. E. Lovett, and a collection of amulets and votive offerings from Italy and Corfu by Mr. Hildburgh.

Mr. F. Fawcett exhibited, and presented to the Society, a tally stick and a hand-made pot from Malabar, Southern India.

The meeting terminated with hearty votes of thanks to Dr. Westermarck for his paper, to Messrs. Lovett, Hild- burgh, and Fawcett for their exhibition of amulets and other objects, and to Mr. Fawcett for his gift of objects to the Society.