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Sern! OF THE HON, SECRETARY, 
1883. 
mYHE Fifth Anniversary of this Society was held in the 
| School of Art (kindly lent by the Committee for the 
occasion) on the zoth of February, 1853. The Right 
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Lichfield presided. The 
Report of the Society’s proceedings for the past year, which in- 
cluded a satisfactory balance-sheet, and showed an increase in 
the number of members, was read. 
' The officers for the year commencing were elected. The meet- 
ing confirmed the provisional election of Mr. Beresford Wright to 
a seat on the Council, and re-elected those members of Council 
who retired in rotation under Rule V.—viz., Messrs. J. C. Cox, 
T. Evans, Foljambe, Frith, Heath, Jolley, Jourdain, and Keene. 
The Hon. Sec., the Hon. Sec. of Finance, the Hon. Treasurer, 
and the Auditors were also re-elected. 
Specimens of Church Plate from the Churches of Derbyshire 
were exhibited at the meeting, including the Plate in use at the 
Churches of All Saints, S. Michael’s, S. Werburgh’s, Derby, 
Allestree, Findern, Ashford, Bradley (a Kniveton set), Matlock, 
Shirley (a medieval paten), and many others. 
The Rev. J. Charles Cox read the following paper upon 
“Eucharistic Plate,’’ illustrating his remarks from the examples 
exhibited :— 
