L EOYAL SOCIETY OF CANADA. 



Calbert, Earl Clarke, Edward Tuck, Kenneth Wollaston, Morris Thomas, Ewen Cameron, Christopher 

 Loat, Paul Eenwick, Walter Storey, Maurice Berkley, Chas. Steers, Arthur Thomas, Charles Wilson, 

 George Brown, Howard McEwan, Geoi-ge Pickard, Richard Hale, and the Mioses J. Colquhoun, J. L. 

 Fancette, L. E. Eenwick, A. Lee, Kdith Byrne, Cassie Minerve, Annie Muri-ay, Nora Denny, Kate 

 Wolfendcn, Eva Shrapnel, Mary Mason, Jane G. Loat, N. B. Netherby, Maggie Murray, Alice Dalby, 

 Elsie Arthur, Minnie Nicholas, M. C. Maclean, E. M. Shrapnel, Eleanor G. Nisbet, C. Macgregor, 

 Ethel Crockford, Evelyn Marchant, Blanche Cowes, Mary Creech, Pearl Flemming, Beatrice Tobin, 

 Lilias Sutherland, Annie Cathcart, Coia Loat, Winnie Creech, Eva Miller, I. McTaggart, Maud 

 Eckorsley, May Duncan, Alice Doran, Parker Northeott, Bertie Nason, Eose Jackson, Bessie Mor- 

 rison, Isabel Leeming, Annie Blackbourne, Lizzie Fletcher, Agnes Petit, Mabel Sylvester. 



Financial Statement— (From Ist January to 25th May, 1894). 



Jan. 1. Bal. Cash (Pub. Rep. 1 Mar.) 8 9.00 



" " " " Error 0.25 



May 2.5. From Newfoundland, (above) 1.00 



" " Prince Edward Island, (as above). . 0..50 



" " Nova Scotia " .. 8.25 



" " New Brunswick " .. 3..50 



" " Quebec " .. I.OO 



" " Ontario " . . 3.25 



" " Manitoba " . . 1.75 



" " Saskatchewan " . . 1.50 



$30.00 



March 1. 

 April 3. 



10. 

 2. 

 13. 

 18. 

 25. 



May 



Postage, .300 circulars | 3.00 



T. C. Allan & Co., 500 circulars, etc 11.45 



Postage, Phen. circulars, etc 1.00 



" Sup. Phen. circulars, etc 1.00 



" Exp. Prov. Sec, Manitoba 0.25 



Special Phen. circulars 1.75 



Postage, correspondence 0.65 



Bal. cash on hand 10.90 



ÎS30.00 



XVI. — From Tlie American Folh-Lore Society (Montreal Branch), through Mr. John Reade. 



The fifth annual meeting of the American Folk-Loro Society was held at Montreal on the 13th 

 and 14th of September, 1893, Prof. D. P. Penhallow, of McGill University, second vice-president, in 

 the chair. 



After an address of welcome from the chairman, the secretary, Mr. W. W. Newell, read a letter 

 that he had received from the president, Mr. Horalio Hale, M.A., of Clinton, Ont., in which he 

 regretted that the stale of his health would not permit him to be present, and set forth the linos 

 of research comprised under the head of folk-lore. 



Mr. Newell then read the report of the council, which showed steady progress both in membcr- 

 ship and work accomplished. The society had been incorporated by an act of the Massachusetts legis- 

 lature. The number of local branches had increased. Advance had been made in the project of 

 publishing a series of folklore monographs to be entitled "Memoirs of the American Folk-Lore 

 Society," and the first volume of the series, " Folk-Tales of Angola," collected and edited by Mr. Heli 

 Châtelain, late of Loanda, Africa, was already passing through the press. Another volume, by Prof. 

 Alcée Fortier, of Tulane University, New Orleans, would deal with the dialect tales of Louisiana. 



The report having been adopted and other business disposed of, the following papers were read 

 or jjresented : 



Canadian Folk-Songs, by Mr. John Reade. 



On the Origin of Some Popular Oaths, by Mr. J. M. LeMoine. 



Some Causes of the Eetarded Development of African Civilization, by Mr. Heli Châtelain, 



late of Loanda, Africa. 

 Indian Writing and Hieroglyphics, by Mr. H. Beaugrand. 

 The Study of Folk-Lore : its Material and Objects, by Mr. W. W. Newell. 

 Mythology of the Columbian Discovery of America, by Dr. A. F. Chamberlain. 

 Dextral and Sinistral Circuits, by Mrs. Fanny D. Bergen. 



