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Annual Report of the Coiincii 7

pologist. It is hoped that the meeting will be well attended, and that meetings of a similar nature may be arranged at Oxford or Cambridge either annually or in alternate years.

Several additions have been made to the Society's Library during the year, particulars of which have been duly noted in the pages of Folk-Lorc. The Council have not yet taken any steps in reference to printing a catalogue, as they are of opinion that the expense of compiling a catalogue, other than the slip catalogue already prepared for the use of members by the Hon. Librarian, could hardly be justified.

Dr. Gaster and Mr. Longworth Dames attended the meeting of the Congress of Archaeological Societies at Burlington House in July as representatives of the Society; and the President and many other members represented the Society at the meeting of the l^ritish Association at Birmingham in September.

The twenty-fourth volume of Folk-Lorc has been issued during the year. The Council are once more indebted to Mr. A. R. Wright for compiling the index.

The Bibliography of Anthropology and Folklore dealing with the year 1908 has not yet been issued, and the Council have to plead for still further indulgence in this matter, as they have experienced far greater difficulties in getting the work completed than they anticipated on the Anthropologi- cal side.

The Council have pleasure in announcing that Mr. Simpkins's collection of the folklore of the counties of Fife, Clackmannan, and Kinross, from printed sources, which they have decided shall be the additional volume for 1912, is in the press, and they hope that it will be in the hands of members before Easter. The additional volume for 191 3 will be the Handbook of Folklore, which the Council are glad to report is now completed, and they hope that it may be published before the meeting of the British Association in September. The completion of the