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388 foreign countries. In Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, either through the establishment of a Folk-Lore Society or the publication of a journal specially devoted to the study, the movement begun by this Society has been extended. A proposal has also been made to establish a Folk-Lore Society in the United States; and in India the publication of Captain Temple's Panjâb Notes and Queries promises to be as useful to Hindu Folk-Lore as our own Notes and Queries has been in the past to English. Of private collectors it may be useful to note that Captain Conder has obtained a great quantity of Arab Folk-Lore; Sir Arthur Gordon has brought from Fiji some important materials; Mr. Karl Krohn is now travelling in the Baltic provinces of Russia collecting Esthonian and Lettish Folk-Lore; and the Royal Colonial Institute of the Hague has resolved to request replies to a code of questions on proverbs addressed to all the Dutch colonies.

In conclusion, the Council would observe that it behoves every member interested in the study and anxious to preserve the position which this Society has held up to the present time, to exert himself to the utmost to secure additional members. There is plenty of work to do, and it must be done quickly.