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Denmark and in other places. It was remarkable that copper imple- 

 ments were found in them, and some gold. These metals are not 

 produced in Florida. He had no doubt that the copper came from the 

 north-west of Lake Superior, and the gold from Mexico, indicating the 

 intercommunication between the tribes. In the shell mounds of 

 Jamaica no gold was now found, though the Spaniards found gold there^ 

 which probably came from Mexico. 



NINETEENTH MEETING. 



Nineteenth Meeting, 2ist March 1891, the President in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, iii. 



Air. Harvey presented a dragon-fly from Bogota, Columbia, from Mr. 

 Croll of the SS. " Alene ," also a gamboge apple and shells from 

 Jamaica. The Rev, Vincent Clementi, B.A., of Peterborough, having 

 written offering to present to the Natural History Department of the 

 Institute a work entitled " The Nests and Eggs of the Birds of Ohio," 

 and to have the same bound at his own expense, a resolution was passed 

 accepting the same and returning thanks for the valuable gift. 



Mr. Harvey and Dr. Meredith were appointed Auditors for the current 

 year. 



The President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer were named 

 delegates to the mining convention to be held on 31st March. 



Mr. D. R. Keys, M.A., read on behalf of Mr. A. F. Chamberlain, M.A., 

 fellow in anthropology in Clark University, Worcester, Mass., a paper on 

 " French-Canadian Folk-Lore " The writer called attention to the 

 desirability of further investigation of the folk-lore of the people of 

 European descent resident in the Dominion of Canada. More has been 

 done for Quebec than for Ontario in this respect, the literary men of the 

 former province not being oblivious of the fact that much of the legend- 

 ary lor^e of the other France across the sea still lingers in the quiet 

 valleys of Lower Canada. The paper was devoted to the discussion of 

 certain items of folk-lore which are preserved for us in the writings of 

 the French-Canadian novelists and historians, Faucher de Saint Maurice, 

 J. E. Tache, P. A. de Gaspe, P. Lemay, etc. The belief that the 

 '' northern lights " can be made to dance by singing or whistling on a 

 calm evening was referred to, and similar beliefs cited as prevalent, 

 amongst certain Indian tribes of the North-West. The feiix-follets^ or- 



