XXU REPORT. 



of the Journal has also been sent to all who have subscribed ^5 

 s and upwards towards the excavations at Dale Abbey. The fol- 

 lowing is a list of the subscriptions received for the Excavation 

 Fund in the past year : — 



£ s. d. 



Major Pountain I o o 



John Borough o 10 6 



Col. Coke 010 o 



Rev. Canon Hey 010 6 



Wm. Bemrose 1 o o 



Rev. W. Fox o 10 o 



W. D. Fane 2 o o 



Hon. W. M. Jervis 2 2 o 



W. Edmunds I I O 



E. Miller Mundy 2 2 o 



Rev.. A. Olivier I I o 



Dean of Lichfield I I O 



Rev. Tansley Hall 010 o 



J. Borough O 10 o 



E. Greenhongh 010 o 



Col. Newdigate 2 o o 



J. Stevenson o 10 o 



P. Hubhersty o 10 6 



W. Gladwin Turbutt 10 O O 



The Society invited the Royal Archaeological Institute to make 

 Derby the centre for their next annual excursion. In reply, the 

 R. A. I. expressed "themselves much gratified by the invitation, 

 but had already fixed upon Lincoln as their next centre. 



Complimentary notices of the Society's work at Dale have 

 appeared in the Athenceum and other papers. 



The sum of ^120 has been invested, according to Rule VII., 

 in the name of the Society. 



The Council has voted ^5 from the funds of the Society 

 towards the fund for the preservation of the ruined chapel of 

 Steetley. This vote is for the sake of a perfectly unique specimen 

 of Norman art, and is not to be taken as a precedent for voting 

 money to ordinary Church restoration. 



The Finance Committee have pleasure in handing in a Balance 

 Sheet, which shews the finances of the Society to be in a satis- 



