Mr. M. J. Walhouse read a paper, entitled "Ghostly Lights" (infra p. 293), and a discussion followed, in which Miss Burne, Messrs. Nutt and Higgens, Dr. Gaster, and the President took part.
Prof. Kuno Meyer then read his paper on "The Old Norwegian Speculum Regale" (infra, p. 299), and in the discussion which followed, the President, Mr. Nutt, Dr. Gaster, and Miss Burne took part.
A hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Professor Meyer for his paper.
Mr. Brabrook presented a report of the progress of the work of the Ethnographical Committee.
"TOMMY ON THE TUB'S GRAVE."
Mr. Robert Weir Schultz, of 14, Gray's Inn Square, wrote on the 24th May 1894, to Mr. J. G. Frazer as follows:—
"Last evening I was much interested, in passing through Bloomsbury Square, by some children coming up to me with hand extended, and saying, "Please to remember Tommy on the tub's grave." I found that they had got, set out on the pavement, a little arrangement like a cemetery, made principally of sand, and of this shape—
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It was enclosed with sand walls, and there were various hieroglyphics arranged in sand inside, and having flowers (cowslips, I think) laid on them. In the centre, at A, was a large bunch of flowers on a bigger heap, and this was pointed out to me as the "tub's grave". On asking what it
