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386 at once adopted. It is therefore hoped that in the future a greater amount of space may be obtained for printing these tabulations of Folk-Tales. In the meantime new workers are urgently needed to aid those already in the field, and thus help to bring the results of the Committee's plan more quickly before students of this important branch of Folk-Lore. The Committee cannot begin to classify and arrange until at all events all the principal collections of Folk-Tales are completely tabulated.

The bibliography of Folk-Lore has been printed in the Journal as far as the letter C (authors' names). Letter D is ready for press, and considerable progress has been made with the subsequent portions. The object of printing these sections in the Journal is to ensure correction of any errors, and the addition of titles not included by the Editor, and members may materially help the Society in this branch of its work. It is hoped that more rapid progress with this important compilation will be made this year.

The Council last year expressed an opinion that the time had not come for the appointment of Local Secretaries, and it is not yet prepared to arrange such a complete organisation as might be wished. As a first step, however, it is thought that some arrangement should be made for the appointment of Local Secretaries for the chief divisions of the British Isles and for India, and they accordingly have appointed the following gentlemen:—

Mr. William George Black for South Scotland.

Rev. W. Gregor North Scotland.

Mr. G. H. Kinahan Ireland.

Mr. J. Fisher Wales.

Captain R. C. Temple India.

The Council have to report that the Right Reverend the Bishop of St. John's, Kaffraria (Dr. Henry Callaway), has very kindly presented to the Society about eighty copies of his very valuable Zulu Nursery Literature, and about five hundred copies