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WING to the great amount of work which fell upon the members of the Council in connection with the International Folk-lore Congress of 1891, the Council were unable to give their usual detailed attention to all branches of the Society's work. They feel, however, that the members of the Society will not disapprove of this when they consider with what great success the Congress was conducted; and that the Congress has done more than anything else in England to draw public attention to the aims of the Society and the attention of scholars to the good work done, and to be done, by the Society.

So important an event in the history of Folk-lore indeed does the Congress appear to be, that the Council, immediately after its termination, considered that the time had arrived for a new departure, and that, in order to allow the Society fuller scope, its executive must, to some extent at any rate, be reorganised. With this object in view, the Council are considering the best means of securing in London a permanent habitation, of forming a library, and, if possible, a museum of folk-lore objects, and of constituting in each of the counties or districts of the United Kingdom some form of local organisation. These objects must be recognised by all as important for the collection of materials of folk-lore, and every effort will be made to secure their being carried out at no great distance of time. One