PEOCEEDINGS FOE 1894. LI 



Notes on Irish Folk-Lore, by Mrs. Ellen Powell Thompson. 



Brer Eabbit riding on Brer Fox to his Lady-love, by Prof. Adolf Gerber. 



Five Short Louisiana Folk-Tales, Dialect and Translation, by Prof. A. Fortier. 



The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : — 



President — Prof. Alcée Fortier, New Orleans. 



First Vice-President— W. Matthews, Surgeon and Major, U.S.A., P'ort Wingate, N. M. 



Second Vice-President — J. Owen Dorsey, Washington, D.G. 



Councillors (to serve for three years; — Dr. A. F. Chamberlain, "Worcester, Mass. ; Prof. 



M. M. Curtis, Cleveland, Ohio ; Prof. F. W. Putnam, Cambridge, Mass. 

 Permanent Secretary and Editor of ' Journal of American Folk-Lore ' — W. W. Newell, 



Cambridge, Mass. 

 Cui'ator — Steward Culin, Philadelphia. 



The first meeting, session 1893-94, of the Montreal Branch of the American Folk-Lore Society 

 was held on the second Monday in October, and the last on the second Monday in June. 



The following papers were read : — 



The Fall of Hochelaga, by Mr. Horatio Hale, M.A. 

 The Oiigin of Some Popular Oaths, by Mr. J. M. LeMoine. 

 The Werewolf, by Mr. H. Beaugrand. 



Some Tales of the Kootenay Indians, by Prof. A. F. Chamberlain, LL.D. 

 Mistletoe, by Mr. H. Mott. 



Some Phases of Irish Folk-Lore, by Dr. H. M. Patton. 

 Usages associated with Guy Pawkes' Day, by Dr. W. G. Nichol. 

 Nitelia the Sorcerer, by Miss Blanche Macdonell. 

 Some Ojibwe Legends, by Dr. Eobert Bell, F.G.S. 

 All Fools' Day, by Mr. Henry Mott. 



Notes on the Dialect and Folk-Lore of Newfoundland, by Eev. G. Patterson, D.D. 

 The Folk-Lore of Plants, by Miss C. M. Derrick. 

 June 1 1. The Goose in Folk-Lore, by Dr. W. G. Nichol. 



At the second annual meeting in January', the following officers were elected : — 



President— John Eeade, F.E.S.C. 

 First Vice-President— W. J. White, M.A., B.C.L. 

 Second Vice-President — K. Boissovain. 

 Secretary — F. E. Came (re-elected). 

 Treasurer— Dr. U. M. Patton. 



Ladies' Committee — Mrs. E. Eeid, Miss Blanche Macdonell, Mrs. J. Fortier, Miss S. M. 

 Saxe, Mrs. H. Beaugrand, Mrs. K. Boisevain. 



SESSION II. (May 22nd). 



The Eoyal Society and delegates held a public meeting in the evening at 8 o'clock, in the 

 Assembly Hall. His Excellency the Governor-General presided as honorary president Among the 

 large audience present were Her Excellencj^ the Countess of Aberdeen, His Honour Lieutenant-Gov- 

 ernor Schultz, Mrs. Schultz, and many jjrorainent citizens of Ottawa; and the distinguished visitors 

 from the United States, Dr. Justin Winsor, Professor S. H. Scudder, Professor O. C. Marsh, Professor 

 B. E. Fernow. 



After a few remarks by His Excellency the Governor-General, the retiring president. Dr. G. M. 

 Dawson, C.M.G., F.Ii.S., delivered the annual address as follows : — 



