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Minutes of the last Ordinary Meeting, held on the 21st December, 1897, were read and confirmed.

The election of the following new Members was announced, viz.: Miss Sophy G. Edmonds, Mr. T. Rudmose Brown, Mr. F. Edwards, and the Chicago University Library.

The resignations of Mr. T. E. M. Dick, Mr. F. P. Franklen Evans, Mr. W. Rowley, Mr. G. McCorkell, Mr. J. Cooke, Mr. J. P. Lewis, and Miss Marian Green were also announced.

The Secretary, on behalf of Miss Florence Peacock, exhibited a bone (the last vertebra of a rabbit) known locally in Lincolnshire as "the Fox's Face," and read a short explanatory note, in which Miss Peacock stated that the belief was that foxes would never eat the joint in question in a hare or a rabbit, "although they will swallow all the rest, 'even the hair,' my informant said, by which I suppose she meant the fur. I only heard this story lately; and it was from a Lincolnshire peasant, who spoke of it as being a generally received belief. She gave me this bone from a rabbit, which I send you, and also another taken from a hare."

Dr. Gaster, on behalf of Mrs. Gaster, exhibited a headdress worn by persons inviting guests to a marriage in German Silesia, which he stated was probably of oriental origin.

Both exhibits were presented to the Museum.

The Secretary read a note, communicated by Mr. W. B. Gerish, on "The Spectral Rider and Hounds at Randworth