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 TRANSACTIONS OF THE FOLK-LORE SOCIETY. Vol. XXVII.] MARCH, 1916. [No. I.

minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of the following new members was announced, viz.: Mary Lady Carbery, Miss A. Vowles, and Mrs. Sinclair Stevenson.

The resignations of Mr. H. Bayley, Miss Grace Porter, Mr. A. E. Balleine, Prof. G. G. Murray, Mr. Wells Bladen, Mr. T. W. E. Higgens, and Mrs. Dudley Harvey; the withdrawal of the subscriptions of the St. Helen's Public Library and the Royal Dublin Society, and the withdrawal of the resignation of Miss de Brisay were also announced.

The Rev. Dr. Bussell, Vice-Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford, read a paper entitled, "The Religious Basis of Social Union." In the discussion which followed Miss Burne, Dr. Alan Gardiner, Mrs. Seligman, and the Chairman took part; and some observations by Mr. Crooke upon the paper were read by the Secretary. Dr. Bussell having