THE TWENTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORT OF
THE COUNCIL.
20th January, 1904.
The Council desire once again to urge upon all who have the welfare of the Society at heart to spare no efforts in enlisting recruits. If the work of the Society is to flourish it is essential that fresh blood should be continually introduced, and the Council look to the young and enthusiastic among the members of the Society to make its work known among their friends and acquaintances. Most useful work may also be done by inducing the trustees and managers of libraries and literary institutions to subscribe to the Society. Subscriptions such as these are of a more permanent character than those of private individuals. At present there are comparatively few public libraries upon the Society's roll; viz., 43 British, 14 foreign, and 38 American.
The Council regret to have to record the deaths during the year of Mr. W. D. Freshfield, and of M. Gaston Paris and Mr. C. G. Leland (Hans Breitmann), not only old and valued members of the Society, but to be reckoned among the foremost folklore students of the past century. Appreciations of the two last-named appeared in the pages of the June number of Folk-Lore.
The following meetings were held in the course of the year 1903, at which papers were read before the Society, viz.:—
Jan. 28. The President's Address. (Folk-Lore, March, 1903.)
Feb. 28. Selections from a monograph on The Musquakie Indians. Miss M. A. Owen. (The additional volume for 1902.)
March 25. "The Folklore of the Azores." Mr. M. Longworth Dames. (Folk-Lore, June, 1903.)
