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Will-o'-the-Wisps, were noticed, and the legends of the " Follet de la 

 Mare aux Bars " and the " Feu de la Bale " were reviewed ; reference 

 was also made to the " Feu des Roussis." Attention was called to the 

 widespread belief in goblins and sprites, in which the farfadets, lutins, 

 gobelins, diablotins, etc., of the habitant get sometimes very strangely- 

 mixed up with the manitous and wendigoes of the red men. A well- 

 known example is the " Phantom of the Rock " that appears every time 

 a member of the family of Frasers is about to die. M. Aunaud Parent, 

 of Oka, chronicles the survival in his younger days of the belief in the 

 werwolf or loup-garou. There are also stories of the appearance of the 

 devil in the form of a large black cat, etc. The beliefs in the main de 

 gloire (hand of glory) and in the cJiandelle magiqiie (magic candle) have 

 not yet died out. Particular attention was called to the rural festivals 

 of the French-Canadians, their huskings, bees, and the like. The folk- 

 lore of of these gatherings is very important, and it is desirable that data 

 should be accumulated before these festivals become obsolescent and die 

 out. These festivals and the songs that are sung while they are in 

 progress are valuable for comparison with like customs and songs in old 

 France. 



Mr. Geo. Kennedy, LL.D., read, on behalf of Mr. Sandford Fleming 

 C.M.G., a paper on " Reforms in Time Reckoning." 



TWENTIETH MEETING. 



Twentieth Meeting, 28th March, 1891, the Vice-president in the chair. 



Donations and Exchanges, 52. 



Prof. W. H. Ellis read a paper on " Milk Analysis." He said that 

 normal milk had a composition about as follows : — 



Fat 3-8 



Albuminoids , 4"o 



Milk sugar 4'0 



Inorganic salts 07 



Water 87-5 



lOO'O 



For purposes of detecting adulteration one analysis of milk resolves 

 itself into the determination of the quantity of total solids, of the fat, 

 and the solids other than fat ; that is, the sum of the sugar, albuminoids, 

 and inorganic salts which are spoken of together as " solids not fat." 

 The numerous methods of milk analysis in common use of late years 



