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Minutes of Meetings.

cutting corn from Ashburton (Devon); photographs of implements used in cutting wheat, threshing, and reed-making at the same place.

Mr. E. Torday read a paper on "Bushongo Mythology" (pp. 41-7), and exhibited a number of lantern slides illustrative of the paper. In the discussion which followed Major O'Brien, Mr. Halliday Sparling, Mr. Lovett, Dr. Gaster, Mr. Wright, and the President took part.

The meeting terminated with a hearty vote of thanks to Mr. Torday for his paper, and to Mr. Lovett, Mrs. Gomme, and Mr. Amery for their exhibits.




WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21st, 1910.

The President (Miss C. S. Burne) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.

The election of Miss E. Canziani, the Rev. Canon Grant, Mrs. Nutt, Miss Saidie Thompson, and Mrs. J. S. Wingate, as members of the Society, the withdrawal of the resignation of Miss A. Garnett, and the admission of the Kansas City Public Library, as a subscriber to the Society, were announced.

The resignations of Mr. G. M. Bishop, Mr. H. M. Bower, Mr. E. Macbean, and Mr. S. E. Bouverie Pusey were also announced.

Mr. W. Crooke read a paper entitled "King Midas and his Ass's Ears." In the discussion which followed Miss Hull, Dr. Gaster, Mr. Major, and the President took part. A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Crooke for his paper.

Mr. Lovett read a paper on a collection of amulets and