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 2 Minutes of Meetmgs.

The Meeting terminated with hearty votes of thanks to Sir E. im Thurn for his paper and for exhibiting his lantern slides.

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17tli, 1913. The President (Dr. R. R. Marett) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The resignation of Miss Lilian Gask was announced.

Letters from Lady Avebury acknowledging the vote of condolence passed on the death of her late husband, and from Dr. Pitre acknowledging the congratulations of the Society on the completion of his Biblioteca delle Traditioni Popiilare Siciliane, were read by the Chairman.

Miss M. A. Czaplicka read a paper entitled "The Influence of P^nvironment upon the Religious Ideas and Practices of the Aborigines of Northern Asia," (pp. 34-54;, and in the discussion which followed Miss Burne, Mr. Wright, Miss Moutray Read, and the Chairman took part.

Mr. J. H. Powell read a paper entitled " Hook-Swinging in India," and in the discussion which followed Mr. N. W. Thomas, Dr. Hildburgh, Miss Burne, and the Chairman took part.

Both papers were illustrated by lantern slides.

Miss E. Canziani exhibited and presented to the Society a number of objects of folklore interest from the Abruzzi, comprising charms against the evil eye from Aquila and Cocullo, a toothache charm from Cocullo, a lamp from Abruzzi, a fork and a distaff from Casteldelmonte, and a corona made of sugar from Aquila, blessed and kept as a devotional object and sometimes hung on gravestones.