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The Hakluyt Society.
REPORT FOR 1892.

The Travels of Pietro della Valle in India,edited by Mr. Edward Grey, in two volumes, have beenissued to members during the year. More recently, avolume containing Mr. Markham’s translation of theJournal of Columbus’ First Voyage, together withdocuments relating to the voyages of John Cabot andGaspar Corte-Real, has also been issued.

Mr. Theodore Bent’s Early Voyages to the Levant,comprising the Diary of Thomas Dallam, and extractsfrom the Diaries of Dr. John Covel, is now ready for issue;and there will shortly appear, in two volumes, a collectionof Early Voyages to Hudson’s Bay in Search ofa North-West Passage, edited by Mr. Miller Christy.These contain carefully annotated transcripts of the rarefirst editions of the North-West Foxe and Capt. James’sVoyage.

The President has translated the Letters of AmerigoVespucci, and other documents relating to the career ofthe Florentine navigator, with Notes and an Introduction.The volume is now ready for the press.

Dr. Robert Brown’s Leo Africanus is also ready forpress.

Among other works undertaken for our Society, Mr.Miller Christy has in hand Jens Munk’s Voyage toHudson’s Bay, translated from the Danish. This workwill complete our series of voyages to the North-West inthe first half of the seventeenth century.

The Council having decided on sending a set of itspublications, as complete as possible, to the ChicagoExhibition, the books (80) were suitably bound and sentto Chicago. They were placed in the British Section(Liberal Arts, Group clv), in a case specially made to holdthem. This set has since been purchased by an Americanbook collector at the price fixed, 310 dollars.

Our list of Subscribers, with a total of 289, shows anincrease on previous years. The balance at the bank was£239 18s. 5d. at the end of 1892.

The following Members of Council retire: Mr. BouveriePusey, Mr. Ernest Satow, and Capt. Sir J. Sydney Webb;and the following gentlemen are proposed for election:Capt. Nathan, R.E., Mr. F. Ducane Godman, F.R.S., andMr. C. P. Lucas.

Statement of the Accounts of the Hakluyt Society for the year 1892.