Excerpt from Journal of American Folklore, 1919, Vol. 6
In the course of the coming year there is every reason to suppose that the number of branches will be further increased.
Under these circumstances, it seems desirable that some uniformity should be established in the titles of local organizations, a correspondence not hitherto effected. It appears to the Council that the name adopted in Montreal, namely, the American Folk-Lore Society, Montreal Branch, is the best hitherto proposed, and the Council therefore recommend that other branches adopt a corresponding designation.
The time seems to have come in which it is necessary for the Society to secure a regular corporate organization. At the last Annual Meeting, a committee on rules and incorporation of the Society was appointed. The committee have given the subject much consideration, and will report at the present meeting a scheme for the approval of the Society. After a careful examination of the laws of the several States, they have come to the conclusion that the purposes of the Society can best be served by obtaining a special act of incorporation from the Legislature of Massachusetts, entitling the Society to privileges similar to those enjoyed by other organizations.
The Council in its last report advised the printing of a series of special memoirs, uniform with the Journal, and authority was given to proceed with such publication. Circumstances have delayed the execution of the plans of the committee of publication, but the first volume of such a series is now ready for the printer. In conformity with the recommendation previously made, a committee appointed at the last Annual Meeting has adopted a plan for providing ways and means for such additional publication, which will be brought to the attention of members of the Society.
It is not necessary further to insist on the importance of taking steps to promote the collection of aboriginal traditions, with the view of securing the best possible record of primitive life in America, inasmuch as such collection forms the chief reason for the existence of the Society, and has continually been dwelt on in its publications. The year in which is to be held a great Exposition in honor of American discovery seems a suitable time for calling the attention of Americans interested in the subject to the necessity of completing the historical record by such an examination of living aboriginal tradition as may furnish means for a comparison which will assist in determining the true character of pre-Columbian American life.
The Secretary reports that he has on his books the names of nine Life Members and four hundred and sixty-nine Annual Members.
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