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48 Annual Report, Mr. G. F. Black has undertaken to collect the folklore from printed sources of Inverness, Ross, and Argyle; and Mr. R. P. Chope has undertaken Devonshire.

Gloucestershire, Suffolk, Leicestershire, and Rutland were included in County Folk-Lore vol. i., already issued, and the only counties other than those mentioned above now being dealt with are Staffordshire, Norfolk, Hertfordshire, London and Middlesex, Kent, and Surrey. There is still, therefore, an immense area to be covered, and the Council are anxious to emphasise once more the importance of collecting these records of the past, and appeal for further assistance.

The Council have again observed with satisfaction that several members of the Society have participated in the proceedings of the Anthropological section of the British Association. The attention of members is drawn to the interesting character of the papers read in this section from year to year, and the opportunity which these meetings of the Association offer for the discussion of folklore problems and the exposition of folklore material.

The LectureC ommitteeLecture Committee [sic], of which Miss Grove is Hon. Sec., is doing excellent work, and has arranged for meetings to take place during the present year in Battersea and Chelsea, at each of which Mr. Crooke has kindly consented to give a lecture on folklore, illustrated by lantern slides. During the past year Mr. Crooke has given a similar lecture at Wimbledon, an invitation having been addressed to the Council by the Technical Instruction Committee for that district for assistance in arranging a series of popular lectures on different subjects. The slides for Mr. Crooke's lectures have been prepared under the direction of Professor Haddon from negatives of photographs taken by him, and the Council desire to thank him very cordially for the facilities he has thus afforded them of carrying out the work of the committee. To Mr. Crooke also the thanks of the Society are especially due for so kindly volunteering to deliver the