XXVill REPORT. 
During the past year the Vigilance Committee has not been 
called upon to take any step to prevent acts of vandalism in the 
county ; whilst, however, it is hoped that nothing of the kind 
has been overlooked, we would ask all Members of the Society to 
be particular always to report to the Hon. Sec., and to urge their 
friends outside the Society to do the same, in the case of every 
proposed alteration in, or possible destruction of any sort of 
ancient building or other relic of the past. 
Enquiries have been made with a view to the possible opening 
of the Mininglow Barrow in this county, and at one time it was 
hoped that this Society might be able to undertake the work, with 
the valuable assistance of Sir John Lubbock. Sir John was, how- 
ever, prevented from coming to Derbyshire this year, and now 
the Mininglow Barrow.is scheduled under the new Ancient Monu- 
ments Act, and the decision as to its being opened no longer rests 
with the Derbyshire Society alone. 
The question has frequently been brought before the 
Council, as to whether a uniform binding for the volumes of the 
Society’s Journal ought not to be adopted. With this idea in 
view, the Council has ordered the seal of the Society to be cut in 
brass, so that it may be used by Members as a stamp for a binding 
in cloth boards. The Council has also ordered one hundred 
copies of the present issue, Vol. V., to be so bound, and stamped, 
as specimens, with a view to ascertaining the feeling of the Society 
generally on this point. These bound copies will be supplied to 
members who are willing to pay a shilling in addition to their 
subscription, to cover the cost of binding. 
Members will be glad to learn that the preserving process to 
which the All Saints’ wooden effigy has been subjected, has been 
wonderfully successful: two photographs, showing the effigy before 
and since the process, are shown you to-day. It is suggested that 
as the preservation from further decay seems so sure, a complete 
restoration ought to be effected. To do this perfectly, it will be 
necessary to have certain mutilations made good, involving of 
course some outlay ; the Council has not thought it right to order 
this to be done until assured by the authorities at All Saints’ that 
