Page:Folk-lore - A Quarterly Review. Volume 17, 1906.djvu/14

This page needs to be proofread.

Minutes of Meetings.

TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING.

WEDNESDAY, 17tli JANUARY, 1906.

The President (Dr. W. H. D. Rouse) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Annual Meeting were read and confirmed.

The Annual Report, Statement of Accounts and Balance Sheet for the year 1905, were duly presented, and, upon the motion of Mr. Clodd, seconded by Mr. Nutt, it was resolved that the same be received and adopted.

Balloting papers for the election of President, Vice- Presidents, Council, and Officers having been distributed, Mr. Kirby and Mr. Major were nominated by the Chair- man as scrutineers for the Ballot.

The Chairman having delivered his Presidential Address, announced the result of the ballot, and the following ladies and gentlemen were declared duly elected, viz. : —

President. W. H. D. Rouse, Esq., Litt.D.

Vice -Presidents.

The Hon. John Abercromby. The Right Hon. Lord Avebury,

D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S. Sir Edward Brabrook, C.B.,

F.S.A. Miss C. S. Burne. Edward Clodd. J. G. Frazer, M.A., LL.D.,

Litt.D. G. Laurence Gomme, F.S.A.

A. C. Haddon, D.Sc, M.R.I.A.,

F.Z.A. E. S. Hartland, F.S.A. Andrew Lang, M.A., LL.D. Alfred Nutt. Professor J. Rhys, M.A., LL.D.,

F.S.A. The Rev. Professor A. H. Sayce,

M.A., LL.D., D.D. Professor E. B. Tylor, LL.D.,

F.R.S.