REPORT FOR 1879.
The Council of the Hakluyt Society have pleasure in being able to report to the Members that their numbers are increasing, and that the funds are in a satisfactory state. The number of effective Members of the Society is now 240.
The attention of the Council has been given to an arrangement which will facilitate the completion of sets of volumes by old Members, and the acquisition of back volumes which they may desire to possess by new Members who may not wish to purchase complete sets. The whole series can now be purchased at the rate of 8s. 6d. a volume; namely, for £24 4s. 6d., the price increasing at the rate of 8s. 6d. as each new volume is added. The same rule applies when a Member requires any portion of the series equal to, or exceeding, a quarter of the whole number of volumes. When a Member requires a single back volume, or any number less than a quarter of the whole series, he may, with the consent of the Council, be supplied at the rate of 10s. each volume.
Since the last Report the following volume has been issued to Members:—
The Hawkins’ Voyages, during the reigns of Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth, and James I. Edited, with an Introduction, by Clements R. Markham, C.B., F.R.S.
And the following volume is nearly ready for issue:—
The Bondage and Travels of Johann Schiltberger, from his Capture at the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396,
to his Escape and Return to Europe in 1427. Translated and edited by Commander Buchan Telfer, R.N.
Three volumes are in the hands of the printer, namely:—