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8 Exhibits were on view at almost every meeting. The Council wish to place on record their indebtedness to Mr. A. A. Gomme for the great pains he has taken in making the necessary arrangements for the exhibition of objects, and their regret that owing to pressure of other work he will be unable to place his services at their disposal in the future.

The only object added to the Society's collection during the year was a Savoyard pipe, with a bowl carved in the shape of a man's head and a long cherry-wood stem, presented by Miss Estella Canziani, which will in due course be placed in the Museum of Archæology and Ethnology at Cambridge.

The Council have much pleasure in recording that they have been successful in making arrangements with the authorities of University College, London, for holding the meetings of the Society in the College, and the Mocatta Library has been placed at the disposal of the Society for that purpose. Arrangements have also been made with the College for housing the Society's library, and the books have been removed from the Royal Anthropological Institute and from the rooms of the Secretary in Lincoln's Inn to their new abode. Mr. R. W. Chambers, the Librarian of the College, has very kindly consented to act as Honorary Librarian of the Society. An agreement has been entered into providing for the mutual use by the members of the College and the Society respectively of the books in the College and Society's libraries. The details of this agreement will appear in the next number of Folk-Lore. The Council invite gifts of books and pamphlets on Folklore and Anthropology as additions to the Society's collection.

The first meeting of the Society in its new quarters was held on the 15th November, when it was hoped that the Provost of the College, Dr. Gregory Foster, would have been able to take the chair; but he was unfortunately prevented from doing so by indisposition. In his absence,