1890.] NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 45 



November 28Lh, 1890. ^ 



Special Meeting, jointly with the American Folk-lore 



Society. 



Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, President of the American Folk- 

 lore Society, in the chair. 



About one hundred and twenty persons present. 



Me. W. W. Newell read a paper on 



THE practice OF CONJURING NOXIOUS ANIMALS, AS SURVIV- 

 ING IN THE FOLK-LORE OF NEW ENGLAND. 



Mr. George F. Kunz exhibited a remarkable and valuable 

 collection of rare objects of folk-lore interest, and read an an- 

 notated catalogue of the same. 



Mr. L. J. Vance read a paper entitled 



three LESSONS IN EHABDOMANCY, 



which was discussed by Mr. Moncure D. Conway, Mr. Stew- 

 art CuLiN, and others. 

 Dr. H. Carrington Bolton read a paper entitled 



some HAWAIIAN PASTIMES, 



and illustrated it by objects from Niihau, Hawaiian Islands, 

 and by projections of original photographs. 



Dr. John S. Newberry exhibited the following objects : A 

 prehistoric bronze bell from Japan; a peculiar corn-muller from 

 Central America; and a half-finished stone axe, showing the 

 method of boring the hole, from the Swiss lake dwellings. Dr. 

 Newberry also exhibited the lantern slides illustrating his 

 paper on ''The Ancient Civilizations of America — Date and 

 Derivation," but, owing to the lateness of the hour, did not 

 present the paper, save in brief abstract. 



