volume of 1898 (an illustrated catalogue of the Starr Collection of Mexican Antiquities referred to below), there remains a surplus of receipts over expenditure.
The average attendance at the evening meetings has been very satisfactory, and the discussions following the papers have been of an animated and useful character, deserving in many cases of permanent record in the Transactions, as is the practice in other societies. Members have availed themselves more frequently of their privilege of bringing friends, whom the Council are always glad to welcome. The following papers were read in the course of 1898:—
Jan. 18. President's Address. The Discrimination of Racial Elements in British Folklore.
Feb. 15. "The Spectral Rider and Hounds at Randworth, Norfolk." By W. B. Gerish.
"Notes from Cyprus." By F. O. Harvey.
"On Original Work in Folklore." By H. Raynbird, Junior,
"Customs and Ceremonies at a Mohammedan Betrothal and Wedding." By Major McNair and T. L. Barlow.
"On a Rain Ceremony from the District of Morshidabad, Bengal." By Sarat Chandra Mitra.
March 15. "The Anthropological Value of Children's Games." By Mrs. Gomme.
April 19 "Evald Tang Kristensen, a Danish Folklorist." By W. A. Craigie.
May 17. "Witchcraft in Ancient India." By Professor Winternitz.
"Tobit and Jack the Giant Killer." By F. H. Groome.
"A further instalment of Folklore from the Hebrides." By M. McPhail.
"Giants in Pageants." By Mrs. Murray Aynsley.
"Kitty Witches." By W. B. Gerish.
"Christ's Half-Dole." By W. B. Gerish.
June 21. " Theories of the Origin of Religion." By Andrew Lang.
"The Star-Lore of the Micmacs of Nova Scotia." By S. Hagar.
"Sqaktktquaclt or the Benign-faced, the Cannes of the Ntlakapamuq, British Columbia." By Professor C. Hill-Tout.
Nov. 15. "Ropes of Sand." By Miss Godden.
"Myths and Customs of the Musquakie Indians." By Miss M. A. Owen.
"Ethnological Data in Folklore." A Criticism on the President's Address of 1898. By G. L. Gomme.
Dec. 20. "Folklore from the Southern Sporades." By W. H. D. Rouse.
"Christmas Mummers at Rugby." By W. H. D. Rouse.
