EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
COUNCIL.
22nd January, 1896.
The Council are able to report that the activity of the Society, both in the general and special branches of its work, has been maintained during the past year. The increasing interest in the Evening Meetings has been evidenced by the number of members attending them.
The Journal of the Society is now conducted by a Committee consisting of Mr. Hartland (Chairman), Mr. Gomme (Vice-Chairman), Messrs. Jacobs, Kirby, and Nutt, Miss Cox, and the President and Treasurer. That Committee welcome the receipt of suitable notes and queries and miscellanea for publication, as being useful media of communication between the members.
The Bibliography Committee, the appointment of which was referred to in the last Annual Report, have made progress with their important work; but the material to be dealt with is voluminous, and some time must elapse before the Committee can even approximately fix the date at which their results will be in the hands of members. They are gratified in having secured the ready co-operation of the Council of the American Folk-Lore Society, who have offered to help both in time and money. Mr. Gomme, as Chairman of the Committee, is in correspondence with Mr. Newell, the Secretary of that Society with a view to the settlement of details.
During the past year the Leicestershire and Rutland Collection has been issued to members as the final instal-
