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Minutes of Meetings.

by lantern slides. In the discussion which followed, Messrs. Tabor, Hildburgh, Wright, Nutt, Eagleston, Thomas, and Dames, Miss Eyre, and the Chairman took part. The meeting terminated with a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Lovett for his exhibits and papers.

The Secretary laid on the table the following books, viz.: Analecta Bollandiana, Vol. XXVII., Parts 3 and 4, and The Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, Vol. VIII., Part 2, which had respectively been taken in exchange by, and presented to, the Society since the last Meeting.




WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16th, 1908.

The President (Dr. Gaster) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Mr. G. H. Gerould, the Rev. F. J. Lambert, Mr. H. Steinitzer, and Mr. Maurice S. Thompson as members of the Society was announced.

The resignations of Dr. C. M. Cobb, Mr. A. T. Crawford Cree, and Mr. T. Gowland, and the death of Prof. A. Dieterich, were also announced.

Mr. A. R. Wright read a paper by the Rev. J. H. Weeks, of Wathen, Congo Beige, entitled "Notes on Some Customs of the Lower Congo People" [Vol. XIX., p. 409, and below, p. 32], and exhibited a number of fetish and other objects from the Congo basin.

The Rev. A. E. Scrivener also exhibited a fetish and charm from the Bolobo district.