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Rh will in due course be chronicled in Folk-Lore. The phonograph records taken at the International Folk-Lore Congress held in 1891 have been handed over to the Society by Mr. G. Kiddell of Sidcup, and are now in the Library. Particulars of the conditions subject to which books may be borrowed from the Library may be obtained from the Hon. Librarian, Dr. R. W. Chambers, at the College.

The thirty-second volume of Folk-Lore has been issued during the year. It is a small volume, but as already foreshadowed it is intended that the volume for the current year shall be a larger one. The cost of paper and labour is still too high to allow of the issue of an additional volume, but it is hoped that next year it may be found possible to issue one. Much, however, must depend on the number of new members and subscribers enrolled during 1922 and the recovery of subscriptions in arrear.

The work initiated by the Brand Committee has been restarted, and with Dr. Hartland as the Editor in Chief, the Council feel confident that material progress will be made with the collection and classification of Calendar customs during the coming year.

Among the members of the Society who attended the meeting of the British Association in September were the President, Lord Abercromby, President of Section H, Sir Everard im Thurn, Dr. Haddon, Dr. Crooke, Dr. Hartland, and Mrs. Banks.

During the year the Council have issued a new prospectus, and as foreshadowed in their last report, have raised the price to non-members of the pre-war publications of the Society. Some of the earlier publications are out of print, and the stock of others is exceedingly low.

The Council are satisfied that Messrs. W. Glaisher, Limited, the Society's publishers, are doing all in their power to push the sale of its publications; and they have every reason to hope that when conditions are more normal, the revenue from sales will be sensibly increased.