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 The Bibliographical Society.

HE first Annual Meeting of the Society was held at 20, A Hanover Square, on January 15th, 1894, at 3 p.m., an hour which did not appear to be very convenient to members, as the attendance was a small one. The Report of the Council began with a sympathetic allusion to the death of the Society's first Hon. Secretary, Mr. Talbot Baines Reed, F.S.A., who had taken so active a part in establishing it. It was announced that, at the special request of Mr. Reed, Mr. Alfred Pollard, of the British Museum, had accepted the Hon. Secretaryship, with Mr. John Macfarlane, also of the Museum, as Assistant Secretary.

Reference was made to the papers which had been read during the first session, on " he Present Condition of Bibliography," by Mr. H. B. Wheatley; on "Method in Bibliography," by Mr. F. Madan; on "Incunabula," by Mr. S. J. Aldrich; on the "Iconography of Don Quixote," by Mr. H. S. Ashbee; on the "Official Record of Current Literature," by Mr. H. R. Tedder; on "Special Bibliographies," by Mr. R. C. Christie; and on "The Ideal Book," by Mr. William Morris and Mr. C. T. Jacobi. All of these, together with the President's Inaugural Address, had been printed in the Transactions, and were already in members' hands.

A promise was made that, for the benefit of country members, there should be substituted for the post-cards on which notices of meetings had hitherto been sent out, a four-page News-sheet, containing an abridgment of the last paper; a list of recent books on bibliography; queries and answers; and notes of the works on which different members are engaged. The first number of this News-sheet duly appeared in February, and has been regularly continued: forming a useful means of communication with distant members of the Society.