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2 26 Mmtites of Meetings.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13th, 1917. The President (Dr. R. R. Marett) in the Chair.

The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed.

The Secretary read a letter from Mr. George Wheatley, dated the 20th May, acknowledging the vote of condolence passed at the last meeting.

Dr. Jevons read a paper entitled " Magic and Religion," and in the discussion which followed, the Chairman, Sir J. Frazer, Mrs. Scoresby Routledge, and Dr. Gaster took part.

The meeting terminated with a hearty vote of thanks to Dr. Jevons for his paper.

The following books, pamphlets, and periodicals have been presented to the Society during the Session 1916-17, viz :

The Oghoiii and other Secret Societies in Nigeria, and TJie African Table of Periodic Laiv, by R. E. Dennett, pre- sented by the Author; Rudimentary Grammar of the Sema Naga Language, by J. H. Hulton, I.C.S., presented by the Government of Assam ; The Folk Tales of the Kiwai Papuans, by G. Landtman, Ph.D., presented by the Author ; The 2gth and loth Annual Reports (1907-8 and 1908-9) of the Bureau of American Ethnology ; and Ethnobotatiy of the Tezva Indians, by W. W. Robbins, J. P. Harrington and B. Freire Marreco, presented by the Bureau ; Southern India, its History, People, Commerce and Industrial Re- sources, by Somerset Playne, F.R.G.S., presented by the Author ; Elementary Grammar of the Ibo Language, by J. Spencer, presented by the Author ; The Korea Magazine, February to May 1917, presented by the Editor; The Island of Formosa and its Primitive Inhabitants, by S. Ishii, presented by the Author ; The fournal of the Hyderabad Archceological Society, July 19 16, presented by the Society ; Harpoons and Darts in the Stefansson Collection, by Clark Wissler, The Whale House of the Chilkat, by G. T.