XIX 
REPORT OF THE HON. SECRETARY, 
1881. 
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SYIHE Third Anniversary of this Society was held in the 
al School of Art, kindly lent by the Committee for the 
occasion, on the 26th of January, 1881. The Very 
Rev. The Dean of Lichfield presided. The Report of the 
- Society’s proceedings for the past year, including a satisfactory 
balance sheet, and showing a considerable increase in the number 
of Members, was read. 
The Officers for the year commencing were elected. There 
were three vacancies on the Council, owing to the death of Mr. 
_ Parkin and the resignation of the Rev. A. Olivier and Mr. W. G. 
- Turbutt. The Council had provisionally filled up these vacancies, 
and the general meeting now confirmed the election of Messrs. 
E. Cooling, T. W. Charlton, and J. Gallop. The Members of 
Council retiring under Rule V., together with the other Officers, 
_ were re-elected. 
_ At the close of the meeting the Dean said—I observe that 
your Society is not only for archeological studies, but also for 
natural history pursuits, and these two terms appear to me to 
embrace every conceivable kind of knowledge which can be 
entered upon by any society at all. It opens a very wide range 
of investigation. When I was asked to undertake the honourable 
Office assigned me to-day, I naturally thought of the position that 
Derbyshire occupies in the country. I thought of the natural 
formation of the county, and also, looking at the geology of the 
