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Rh also a series of large works, FF Publications, which may be obtained by members at a reduced price. Such works must be recommended by "FF," and be written in English, French, or German, or be accompanied by summaries in one of these languages, but members need not purchase them. So far only a Northern Series has been published, comprising five volumes of ballads and folk-music from Scandinavian and Finnish sources, but new series may follow. FF Publication will, it is hoped, be a mark of honour which can be conferred on a folklore publication.

In conclusion, I should like to add a short account of the organisation of folklorist work in the Scandinavian countries.

In Denmark there is a public institution, Dansk Folkemindesamling (The National Collection of Folklore), connected with the Royal Library. To aid it, a private society, Danmarks Folkeminder (The Folklore of Denmark), has been founded, and is at work collecting old traditions, and publishing in a popular form the material collected and matter relating to it. In this way the National Collection is a centre of active work, and applications to "FF" in Denmark are addressed to Dansk Folkemindesamling, Copenhagen.

In Norway all the private collections are to be assembled in 1912 into Norsk Folkemindesamling, which has obtained pretty rooms in the new building of the University Library at Christiania, but as a quite independent institution.

In Iceland a considerable number of collections is to be found in the National Library at Reykjavik. A local section of "FF" has recently been founded in close connection with this library.

In Sweden there are collections in different places; a union of them is under consideration, but not yet accomplished.

At Helsingfors in Finland there are great manuscript collections belonging to the Society of Finnish Literature, which has also published much folklore. This Society is the centre of folklore studies in Finland, but Swedish traditions in Finland are dealt with by the Swedish Literary Society at Helsingfors. Under the direction of Professor Kaarle Krohn, Finland has set up a high standard in the systematic collection and admirable classification of folklore.