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minutes of the January Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Miss G. M. Ireland Blackburne and Mr. M. Letts as members of the Society, and the enrolment of the College Hall Library, Byng Place, as a subscriber, were announced.

The deaths of Mr. H. E. Gregory and Mr. F. Seebohm, and the resignations of Mr. F. H. Parrot and of the Sigma Fraternity were also announced.

The Chairman apologized for the absence of the President in consequence of the disorganization of the traffic on the Great Western Railway by the coal strike; and also of Capt. Whiffen, who had been advertised to read a paper on "The Folklore of the Middle Issa-Japura Watersheds," but who had been called away from London on duty connected with the strike.

Miss C. S. Burne read a paper on "Guy Fawkes," and in the discussion which followed the Chairman, Miss Freire-Marreco, Miss Hull, and Mr. Kirby took part.

Dr. W. L. Hildburgh exhibited and explained an