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First Vice-President, Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Fellow of Har- vard University, Washington, D. C.

Second Vice-President, Mr. C. F. Lummis, Los Angeles, Cal.

Councillors (for three years), Dr. Franz Boas, American Mu- seum of Natural History, New York, N. Y. ; Mr. J. D. Buck, Cin- cinnati, O. ; Miss Anne Weston Whitney, Baltimore, Md.

The Permanent Secretary and Treasurer hold over.

The Permanent Secretary was instructed to cast a ballot for the officers as nominated. The Council announced the appointment of a Committee on the Collection and Study of Folk-Song and Folk- Music charged with the duty of proposing plans and making pro- visions for the gathering and publication of such material : Dr. Franz Boas, Prof. C. L. Edwards, Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Mr. H. E. Krehbiel.

The Permanent Secretary was given authority to arrange the time and place of the next Annual Meeting, to be fixed about Decem- ber 28, 1899; in making such arrangement, he was instructed to follow the course adopted in 1898 of uniting with the Naturalists and other Affiliated Societies.

The business being concluded, the Society listened to the Address of the President, Professor Henry Wood, concerning " Folk-Lore and Metaphor in Literary Style."

Other papers were presented, as follows: —

Ojibwa, Cree, and Eskimo Legends from Canada, Dr. Robert Bell, F. R. S., Ottawa, Canada.

Some Animal Medicine, Mrs. Fanny D. Bergen, Cambridge, Mass.

American Indian Names of White Men, Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, Worcester, Mass.

Bibliography of Folk-Lore relating to Women, Mrs. Isabel C. Chamberlain, Worcester, Mass.

Bahama Customs and Superstitions, Prof. C. L. Edwards, Cin- cinnati, Ohio.

Mythology of the Chilcotin, Dr. Livingston Farrand, New York, N. Y.

The Origin of a Tradition, Miss Cornelia Horsford, Cambridge, Mass.

Animal Tales of the Eskimo, Mr. A. Kroeber, New York, N. Y.

The Study of Ethics among the Lower Races, Dr. Washington Matthews, Washington, D. C.

Modern Theories of the Origin of Folk-Tales, Mr. W. W. New- ell, Cambridge, Mass.

Who was Mother Goose ? Prof. Thomas Wilson, Washington, D. C.

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