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96 out by a Committee drawing up a circular on the above basis, to be transmitted to learned Societies in Holland, England, France and Russia, in order that they may refer them in the East to Oriental societies, schoolmasters, editors of newspapers and periodicals, and Christian missionaries." The Royal Colonial Institute of the Hague has resolved to carry out the plan with respect to the Dutch colonies in the East by forwarding the above resolution, with a request that replies be sent to the Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences at Batavia.

The Sixth Report of the Committee on Devonshire Folk-Lore has just reached us. It contains among other items cure for red milk in cows, cure for warts, cure for udder-ill, cure for stye-in-the-eye, erysipelas charm, cure for whooping-cough, cure for bites of snakes, witchcraft, Millbrook May-day ship, popular beliefs and sayings, waning of the moon.

The Countess Martinengo Cesaresco has forwarded for distribution a few copies of a paper she has reprinted, "La Canzonetta della Sumaca." Mr. Gomme will be glad to forward one to any member desiring it.

Mr. Kaarle Krohn, the son of Dr. Krohn, of Wasa, is now travelling in the Baltic provinces of Russia, collecting the folk-lore of the Esthonian and Lettish population.

The firm of Henninger, of Heilbronn, announce a second series of Κρυπτάδια , to be issued by subscription in an edition of only 135 copies, at the price of twenty marks.

Dr. Ludwig-Fritze, of Drossen, has published, with Schulze, of Leipzig, a new translation into German of Pantschatantra, which has, says the Academy, at least the merit of being written in a most polished literary style. We believe that Benfey's version (1859) has now become quite a rare book.

A meeting of the Society was held at the rooms of the Asiatic Society, 22, Albemarle Street, on January 25, Mr. W. R. S. Ralston, V.P., in the chair. Mr. Rhys Davids gave a paper on "The oldest collection of folk-lore extant"—the Buddhist Jatakas. As Mr. Davids kindly promises to send a transcript of his communication for publication, we shall not give here the usual summary.