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folklore specimens available for study to furnish the Secretary with particulars. This has produced a response from one of the members, to whom the Council are much indebted.
On Thursday, the 14th May, the Oxford Anthropological Society held a meeting at Oxford, to which members of the Folk-Lore Society and of the Royal Anthropological Institute were invited. The visitors were afforded an opportunity of seeing the Pitt-Rivers Museum, and after- wards had the privilege of listening to a most interesting paper by Professor Gilbert G. Murray, a member of the Society, on " Folk Influence in Early Greek Literature." The members of the Society who availed themselves of this opportunity of visiting Oxford were richly rewarded for their pains.
Several additions have been made to the Society's Library during the year, particulars of which have been duly noted in the pages of Folk-Lore.
Dr. Gaster and Mr. Longworth Dames were again deputed to attend the meeting of the Congress of Archae- ological Societies as representatives of the Society; and the President, Mr. E. S. Hartland, Dr. W. H. R. Rivers, Sir E. im Thurn, Mr. H. Balfour, Dr. Haddon, and several other members represented the Society at the meeting of the British Association in Australia during August.
Other members were present by invitation of the French Association for the Advancement of the Science at its Congress at Havre in July.
The twenty-fifth volume of Folk-Lore has been issued during the year, and the Council are once more indebted to Mr. A. R. Wright for the compilation of the index.
The Council regret to announce that owing to pressure of work Mr. Wright has been obliged to give up the Editor- ship of Folk-Lore, and desire to place on record their keen appreciation of the work he has so ungrudgingly done on behalf of the Society. Mr. Wright's place has been taken
