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Rh purpose of preserving objects belonging to or exhibited through the Society. They hope that before long the case will be in situ, and that all who have any folk-lore objects of interest they are willing either to give or to lend to the Society for exhibition in the Museum will communicate with the Secretary, giving full particulars of each object.

The embryo library at the Secretary's rooms at Lincoln's Inn is steadily increasing, numerous books and pamphlets having been presented to the Society or taken in exchange during the past year. The Council propose that in future all books and pamphlets presented to the Society from time to time shall be laid on the table at an evening meeting, and the gift duly chronicled in the Transactions of the Society, so as to give every member an opportunity of knowing what the library contains, and of referring to any book in it in case of need.

The Council have it in contemplation to arrange for the holding of a Provincial Meeting in the present year. They are of opinion that, taking all circumstances into consideration, Cambridge would be the best centre to choose for the experiment; but their plans are not yet sufficiently mature to enable them to make any definite proposal. Meanwhile they will welcome any suggestions from members as to carrying out the object they have in view.

In the early part of the year, the Council received proposals from members of the Anthropological Institute for an amalgamation of the two Societies. The Council of each body appointed a Committee for the purpose of settling a basis for amalgamation, and the Committees met and eventually agreed upon the terms which they were prepared to recommend their respective Councils to accept. The Council of this Society accepted the recommendations of its Committee, which were as follows, viz.:—

(1) That the principle of the proposed union should be, as far as practicable, to continue all existing arrangements, uniting the two Councils into one.