The following objects have also been exhibited at the evening meetings:
(1) A headdress worn by persons inviting guests to a marriage in German Silesia. By Dr. Gaster. (2) A bone forming part of the back of a rabbit, and known locally in Lincolnshire as "The Fox's Face." By Miss M. Peacock. (3) A photograph of a piece of wood used in Caithness in 1810 for making sacred fire. By Dr. Maclagan. (4) Three miniature vases (supposed to be votive) from Lake Chapala in Mexico. By Professor Starr. (5) A Burmese horoscope and some Burmese charms. By Mr. J. B. Andrews. And (6) A charm used to hang round the neck of a horse to keep off the Evil Eye. By Mr. C. E. Levy.
Many of the objects have been presented to the Society by the exhibitors. The Council desire to tender their sincere thanks for their exhibitions and presentations, and to impress upon Members the desirability of exhibiting such folklore objects as they may possess or can borrow for the purpose.
The Society has issued during the year the ninth volume of the new series of its Transactions, Folk-Lore, which comprises, in addition to the more important papers read at the evening meetings, many smaller contributions, correspondence, reviews of folklore literature, both English and foreign, lists of new books, &c. It has also issued Mr. R. E. Dennett's Folk-Lore of the Fjort (French Congo), with introduction by Miss Mary Kingsley, as the extra volume for 1897. The Council are much indebted to Mr. Dennett for having placed in their hands the materials accumulated during his residence of a quarter of a century in French Congo, and to Miss Kingsley, without whose assistance it would have been difficult, in the absence of the author, to pass the work through the press, and who has enriched the volume with an interesting essay upon West African history and theology.
The Council have again to place upon record their deep sense of the obligation under which the Society lies to
