Report of the Council.

The article presents information regarding the American Antiquarian Society. Fund raising efforts by the society to cover operating expenses are detailed. The article reports that the library has been using workers from the federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) to aid in the cataloguing and indexing of library manuscripts. The Society partnered in the portrait exhibition "Life in America for Three Hundred Years" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The article also notes the death of several members of the society in 1939 including Frank C. Deering, Joseph Grafton Minot, and George Watson Cole.