before any Report may be reprinted, the copyright of all Reports printed in the Transactions being vested in the Association.

(c) The printers shall pay to the General Secretary on behalf of the Association, as royalty, a sum of sixpence per fifty copies for each half-sheet of eight pages, any number of copies less than fifty or between two exact multiples of fifty being regarded as fifty, and any number of pages less than eight or between two exact multiples of eight, being regarded as eight.

(d) Each copy of the reprint shall have printed on the first page the words, "Reprinted from the Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature, and Art, for

by permission of the Council of the Association," the year in which the Report was originally printed being indicated.

(e) The reprint shall be an exact copy of the Report as originally printed in the Transactions, without addition, abridgment or modification, the necessary corrections for printer's errors and changes in pagination alone excepted.

21. An amount not less than eighty per cent. of all Compositions received from Life Members of the Association shall be invested.

22. At each of its Ordinary Meetings the Council shall deposit at interest, in such bank as they shall decide on, and in the names of the General Treasurer and General Secretary of the Association, all uninvested Compositions received from Life Members, all uninvested prepaid Annual Subscriptions, and any part, or the whole of the balance derived from other sources which may be in the Treasurer's hands after providing for all accounts passed for payment at the said Meeting.

23. The General Secretary is authorized to spend any sum not exceeding Twenty Pounds per annum in employing a clerk for such work as may be found necessary, and any sum not exceeding Two Guineas for the preparation of an Index to each annual volume of the Transactions.

24. Only Members and Ladies holding Ladies' tickets are admitted to the Association Dinner, when one is held. Members and Ladies intending to dine must send in their names to the Honorary Local Secretary not less than two clear days before the date of the Dinner.

25. Members of the Association have the privilege of using the Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter, subject to the Rules of that Institution, for twelve days in each year, either consecutively or at intervals. Members seeking admission to the Institution will present their visiting cards to the Librarian and enter their names in a book kept for the purpose as well at the date of their visit on each occasion that they make use of the Institution.

REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.

Presented to the General Meeting held at Tavistock, 21st July, 1914.

It is with the deepest regret that the Council have to report the loss the Association has sustained during the past year, by the deaths of two of its most valued members -the Rev. William Harpley and Mr. James Hine. Mr. Harpley was a "Foundation Member" and the last survivor of that band which included Mr. William Pengelly and Mr. C. Spence Bate, which founded the Association in 1862. Mr. Harpley was its first secretary, an office he held for 38 years, from 1862 to 1900, and to his labours in that office, and as Editor of the first thirty volumes of the Transactions, the success the Association has attained is mainly due. Mr. Harpley was also President, when the Association held its annual meeting at Bideford in 1902. Mr. James Hine, though not a "Foundation Member," joined the Association in the first year of its existence and was one of its original members. He contributed many valuable reports and papers to the Transactions, and was President in 1897, when the Association met at Kingsbridge. The following Resolution was passed at the Meeting of the Council held at Exeter on 26 February, 1914: “ That the Secretary be instructed to convey to their respective families the condolences and sympathy of the Members of the Council, in their recent bereavement through the deaths of the Rev. William Harpley and Mr. James Hine, and to place on record the deep regret of the Council at the loss the Association has sustained by the death of two of its most valued members, both original members of the Association, the Rev. William Harpley having been also a Foundation Member,' for 38 years honorary general Secretary and an ex-President, and Mr. James Hine an ex-President."

The Council also regret to report the death of the Rev. Chancellor Edmonds, the learned and genial President of

the Association when it met at Great Torrington, in 1899.

The Winter Meeting of the Council was held at the Devon and Exeter Institution, Exeter, on the 26 February, 1914, when it was decided to accept a cordial invitation from the local authorities of Crediton to hold the Annual Meeting of the Association, in 1915, in that town. Also, various offers for printing the Index to the volumes 1-30 of the Transactions, a work now approaching completion, were considered, which resulted in Messrs. Brendon & Sons' tender being accepted.

A copy of Vol. XLV of the Transactions has been sent to every Member not in arrear with his subscription, and to the following Societies, namely the Royal Society, the Society of Antiquaries, the Linnean Society, the Royal Institution, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Geological Society, the Library of the British Museum, the Natural History Museum (Cromwell Road), the Bodleian Library, the University Library, Cambridge, the Devonand Exeter Institution, the Plymouth Institution, the Natural History Society, Torquay, the North Devon Athenæum, Barnstaple, the Royal Institution of Cornwall, Truro, the Somersetshire Archæological and Natural History Society, Taunton, and the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club (c/o Rev. Herbert Pentin, M.A., Hon. Secretary, Milton Abbey Vicarage, Blandford, Dorset).

The stock of Transactions, Wills, etc., now in hand is as follows: