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Annual Meeting, for the Collection and Study of Folk-Lore and Folk-music, namely, Dr. Franz Boas, Prof. C. L. Edwards, Miss Alice C. Fletcher, Mr. H. E. Krehbiel.
The following is the substance of the Treasurer's Report:—
| RECEIPTS. | |
| Balance from last Report | $1207.75 |
| Subscriptions to Publication Fund | 290.00 |
| Sales through Houghton, Mifflin & Co. (Journal and Memoirs) | 338.74 |
| Sales through the Secretary | 6.00 |
| Annual dues | 957.00 |
| $2799.49 | |
| DISBURSEMENTS. | |
| Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for manufacturing Journal of American Folk-Lore, five numbers (Nos. 42–46) | $1252.38 |
| Houghton, Mifflin & Co., for manufacturing vol. vii. of Memoirs | 451.66 |
| Houghton, Mifflin & Co., volumes supplied to Secretary | 6.00 |
| W. W. Newell, Secretary, salary of clerk | 150.00 |
| W. W. Newell, Secretary, postage and printing | 42.50 |
| G. A. McLeod, Treasurer of Cincinnati Branch | 12.50 |
| M. A. Fernald, Treasurer of Cincinnati Branch | 16.00 |
| M. Chamberlain, Treasurer of Boston Branch | 30.00 |
| F. Boas, postage and printing, expenses of Tenth Annual Meeting | 23.80 |
| Stamped envelopes, and other expenses of Treasurer | 17.95 |
| $2002.79 | |
| Balance to new account | 796.70 |
| $2799.49 | |
Note. The payments to local Treasurers are in accordance with a rule adopted by the Council, allowing to local Branches for necessary expenses a rebate of twenty-five cents on each membership fee.
In the course of the meeting, the Permanent Secretary announced that he had received no independent nominations as provided for by the rules. The nominations of the Council were therefore announced:—
President, Dr. Franz Boas, American Museum of Natural History, New York, N. Y.
First Vice-President, Dr. Frank Russell, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Second Vice-President, Mr. Stansbury Hagar, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Councillors (to serve three years), Dr. Robert Bell, Director of