The following are the publications assigned to the coming year, 1899-1900: 

(1.) The second volume of the Scots Brigade which is already printed, bound, and ready for issue.

(2.) The Journal of a Foreign Tour in 1665 and 1666, and portions of other Journals, by Sir John Lauder, Lord Fountainhall, edited by Mr. Donald Crawford, Sheriff of Aberdeen, Kincardine and Banff.  The greater part of this book also is in type.

(3.) Dispatches of the Papal Envoys to Queen Mary during her reign in Scotland, edited by the Rev. J. Hungerford Pollen, S.J.  The editor expects to send his manuscripts to the printer in January next.

Several new works have been proposed and provisionally accepted by the Council.  Dr. J.H.  Wallace-James offers a collection of Charters and Documents of the Grey Friars of Haddington and of the Cistercian Nunnery of Haddington.  They will be the more welcome, as the desire has been frequently expressed that the Society should deal more fully with the period preceding the Reformation.

Mr. Firth has suggested the publication of certain unedited or imperfectly edited papers concerning the Negotiations for the Union of England and Scotland in 1651-1653, and Mr. C. Sandford Terry of Aberdeen has kindly consented to edit them.

The three retiring members of Council are Dr. Hume Brown, Mr. G.W.  Prothero, and Mr. Balfour Paul.  The Council propose that Mr. Prothero should be removed to the list of corresponding members, that Dr. Hume Brown and Mr. Balfour Paul be re-elected, and that Mr. John Scott, C.B., be appointed to the Council in the place of Mr. Prothero.

The Accounts of the Hon. Treasurer show that there was a balance in November 1898 of L172, 12s. 9d., and that the income for the year 1898-99 was L521, 15s. 5d.  The expenditure for this same year was L438, 14s. 1d., leaving a balance in favour of the Society of L255, 14s. 1d.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the Report, which, he said, was very satisfactory, said that in the first place they had kept their promises and arrangements in the past year, and, in the second place, they had a very good bill of fare for the current year, even if there were nothing additional to their programme as already published.  The books that had been announced as forthcoming were just the kind of books that it was proper the Society should produce.  But, in addition, they would see there was forthcoming a very important publication which had come to them out of the ordinary run.  The late Sir William Fraser, in addition to his other important bequests, which would for the future affect the literature of Scottish history, gave power to his trustees that they might, if they saw occasion, employ a certain portion of his funds on some specific publications of the nature of those materials in which he had been spending his life.  The result had been that the trustees, chiefly he believed by the