(W. Vaughan, Esq., J.P., c.c.); The Ven. Archdeacon of Westminster; His Honour Judge Beresford; The Right Hon. Lord Clinton (Lord Lieut.); The Right Hon. Lord Coleridge; Rev. F. T. Colby, D.D.; S. Doidge, Esq.; J. Jackson, Esq., J.P.; Rev. E. J. Jeffery, M.A.; Rev. F. Emlyn Jones, M.A.; G. Lambert, Esq., M.P.; Arthur J. Lawman, Esq. (Ex-Mayor of Great Torrington); The Hon. Mark Rolle; J. C. Moore Stevens, Esq., J.P.; R. A. Moore Stevens, Esq., J.P.; J. Stawell, Esq.; E. Sutcliff, Esq., M.D.; Hon. General Treasurer: P. F S. Amery, Esq., J.P., Druid, Ashburton; Hon. General Secretary: Rev. W. Harpley, M.A., F.C.P.S., Clayhanger Rectory, Tiverton; Hon. Local Treasurer: H. D. Pearse, jun., Esq., Great Torrington; Hon. Local Secretary: G. M. Doe, Esq., Great Torrington.

The Council have published the President's Address, together with Obituary Notices of members deceased during the preceding year, and the Reports and Papers read before the Association; also the Treasurer's Report, a List of Members, and the Rules, Standing Orders, and Bye-Laws; they have since added an Index, kindly prepared by Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, and a Table of Corrections.

A copy of the Transactions and Index has been sent to each member, and to the following Societies: The Royal Society, Linnæan Society, Geological Society, Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Royal Institution (Albemarle Street), the Society of Antiquaries, Devon and Exeter Institution (Exeter), Plymouth Institution, Torquay Natural History Society, North Devon Athenæum (Barnstaple), Royal Institution of Cornwall (Truro), the Library of the British Museum, the British Museum (Natural History, Cromwell Road), the Bodleian Library (Oxford), and the University Library (Cambridge).

In closing their Report the Council desire to offer their congratulations on the large accession of members to the Association during the year now ended. Owing to efforts made by some old members to secure recruits, but more especially to the exertions of the local officers at Honiton, the list of members as printed in the last vol. of Transactions contains 519 names- -a larger number than has ever been reached since the Association was founded.

I have examined the foregoing Accounts with the Vouchers, and find them to be correct, this 5th day of August, 1899.

Statement of the Property of the Association, July 30th, 1899.

"When the number of copies on hand of any 'Part' of the Transactions is reduced to twenty, the price per copy shall be increased 25 per cent. ; and when the number has been reduced to ten copies, the price shall be increased 50 per cent. on the original price."— Standing Order No. 24.

The Transactions in stock are insured against fire in the sum of £400. The vols. published in 1862, 1869, and 1872 are out of print.

SELECTED MINUTES OF COUNCIL APPOINTING

COMMITTEES.

Passed at the Meeting at Torrington.

AUGUST, 1899.

9. THAT Dr. Brushfield, Rev. Canon Edmonds, Mr. A. H. A. Hamilton, Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. J. Hine, and Mr. J. Brooking Rowe be a Committee for the purpose of considering at what place the Association shall hold its Meeting in 1901, who shall be invited to be the Officers during the year beginning with that Meeting, and who shall be invited to fill any official vacancy or vacancies which may occur before the Annual Meeting in 1900; that Mr. J. Brooking Rowe be the Secretary; and that they be requested to report to the next Winter Meeting of the Council, and, if necessary, to the first Meeting of the Council to be held in August, 1900.

10. That Mr. J. S. Amery, Mr. F. Brent, Dr. Brushfield, Mr. Robert Burnard, Mr. A. Chandler, Mr. E. A. S. Elliot, Mr. H. M. Evans, Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. C. E. Robinson, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, Mr. A. Somervail, and Mr. H. B. S. Woodhouse be a Committee for the purpose of noting the discovery or occurrence of such Facts in any department of scientific enquiry, and connected with Devonshire, as it may be desirable to place on permanent record, but which may not be of sufficient importance in themselves to form the subjects of separate papers; and that Mr. J. Brooking Rowe be the Secretary.

11. That Mr. P. F. S. Amery, Rev. S. Baring-Gould, Mr. G. M. Doe, Rev. W. Harpley, Mr. P. Q. Karkeek, Mr. J. S. Neck, Mrs. Radford, Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, Mrs. Troup, and Mr. H. B. S. Woodhouse be a Committee for the purpose of collecting notes on Devonshire Folk-Lore; and that Mr. P. F. S. Amery be the Secretary.

12. That Dr. Brushfield, Lord Clifford, Mr. A. J. Davy, Mr. A. H. A. Hamilton, Mr. J. Hine, and Mr. J. Shelly be a Committee to prepare a Report on the Public and Private Collections of Works of Art in Devonshire; and that Mr. J. Hine be the Secretary.