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8 journal, and arrangements have been made for the immediate future. The Council desire to take this opportunity of placing on record their deep indebtedness for the manner in which Miss Burne has discharged her duties as editor, and their appreciation of the services she has rendered to the Society in that capacity. The Society is again under obligation to Mr. A. R. Wright for the Index, and the Council have once more to thank him for the service he has so ungrudgingly rendered in compiling it.

In accordance with the arrangements made with the Royal Anthropological Institute, to which reference was made in the last report, a joint Annual Bibliography for the year 1907 has been issued. Members and subscribers are reminded that copies of this bibliography will be supplied to them gratis, but only upon application to the Society's publishers.

The additional volume for 1907, The Grateful Dead, by Mr. G. H. Gerould, has been issued. The Collection of Lincolnshire Folklore from Printed Sources, by Miss M. Peacock and Mrs. Gutch, which is the additional volume for 1908, is in the press, and will, it is hoped, be issued early in the course of the year. The Council have several MSS. under consideration for the additional volume for 1909.

The Meeting of the Congress of Archaeological Societies was held as usual in July, and was attended by the President, as the delegate from the Society.

The Council very much regret that they were unable to carry out their proposal to celebrate the completion of the thirtieth year of the Society by the holding of a series of Commemorative Meetings. The claims of the British Association at Dublin and of the Congress of the History of Religions at Oxford were paramount, and it was found impossible to fix a date either before or after the meetings of those two bodies which would suit the convenience of foreign folklorists.