20th March. "Guy Fawkes' Day." Miss Charlotte S. Burne.
17th April. "The "Dreamers" of the Mohave-Apache Tribe." Miss B. Freire Marreco.
15th May. "Cotswold Place- Lore and Customs." Miss J. B. Partridge. "Japanese Spirits, Mythology, and Folk-Tales." Mr. A. R. Wright.
19th June. "The Sociological Significance of Myth." Dr. W. H. R. Rivers.
20th November. "Modern Russian Popular Songs." Mr. M. Trophimoff.
18th December. "A Short Account of the Indians of the Issá-Japurá District (South America)." Captain T. W. Whiffen.
Mr. Wright's and Captain Whiffen's papers in May and December were illustrated by lantern-slides; and Mr. Trophimoff's paper in November was most effectively illustrated by the singing of several popular Russian songs by a company of singers whom he brought with him to the meeting.
Exhibits were on view at several of the meetings. In March Dr. Hildburgh exhibited a collection of Bavarian and Tyrolese charms; in April Miss Moutray Read, on behalf of Miss Haverfield, exhibited a box of playing-cards from Rajputana, and Miss Estella Canziani a clasp such as is sewn in the cinctures of women in certain parts of Savoy; in November Dr. Hildburgh exhibited and explained a number of Spanish charms and amulets against the Evil Eye; and in December Mr. Lovett exhibited some dolls representing sailors lost at sea, and Captain Whiffen a large number of objects illustrative of his paper, which were of special interest coming as they did from the district which is now notorious as the scene of the Putumayo atrocities. The clasp exhibited by Miss Canziani has been very kindly presented by her to the Society, and will in due course be placed in the Museum of Archæology and Ethnology at Cambridge. The Council are glad to be able to announce that Mr. Pendlebury has consented to act as the convener of the Exhibits and Museum Committee, and to make himself responsible for the arrangement of the objects exhibited at the meetings of the Society, and they hope
