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Council have pleasure in reporting that during the year twenty-four new members and two subscribers have been added to the roll. Seventeen members have resigned, and there have been two deaths. The list of members has been revised by striking out the names of those whose subscriptions were three or more years in arrear, and the total number now stands at 429.

Meetings of the Society have been held as follows:—

18th January, 1911. (Annual Meeting.) Presidential Address: "The Essential Unity of Folklore." Miss Charlotte S. Burne.

15th February. "Hampshire Folklore." Miss D. H. Moutray Read.

15th March. "Morris Dances and Sword Dances." Mr. Cecil J. Sharp.

5th April. "Some Matrimonial Problems of the Western Border of India." Major A. J. O'Brien.

17th May. "Sudanese and Egyptian Beliefs." Dr. and Mrs. Seligmann.

27''th June. "Snakestones and Stone Thunderbolts as subjects for Systematic Investigation." Mr. W. W. Skeat.

15th November. "The Veneration of the Cow in India." Mr. W. Crooke.

20th December. "Telling the Rosary from Far East to West." Mr. A. R. Wright.

"Meithei Literature." Mr. T. C. Hodson.

The meeting of the 15th March was held in Messrs. Novello's Music Room in Wardour Street, and was attended by a large number of members and their friends, the sword dances being performed on the centre of the floor by a company instructed and drilled by Mr. Cecil Sharp.