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 CORRESPONDENCE.

Meeting of the Folk- Lore Society at Oxford.

{Supra, p. 6.)

A meeting of the Anthropological Society of Oxford, to which members of the Folk-Lore Society and of the Royal Anthropo- logical Institute are invited, will take place on Thursday, May 14th, from 4-30 to 6 p.m., in the hall of Christ Church. Tea will be followed by the reading of a paper by Prof. Gilbert Murray on " Folk Influence in Early Greek Literature." The Pitt Rivers Museum will be open for the day, and members can return to London by a dining train leaving Oxford at 7-20 p.m.

F. A. ]\Iilne, Secretary.

Modern Greek Folk-Tales and Ancient Greek Mythology: Odysseus and Saint Elias.

(Vol. xxiii., p. 486.)

In the note in Folk-Lore at the reference above, I ventured to dispute the claims of certain modern Greek folk-tales to an ancestry in ancient Greek mythology. Mr. W. R. Paton has since been good enough to draw my attention to an indisputable instance of survival, the case of the sailor who is told to put his oar on his shoulder and march on until he comes to a land where they say that it is a baker's peel. This story Mr. Paton remembers liearing from an old woman in Calymnos some years ago : his notes of it have unfortunately been mislaid. To my