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REPORT OF THE HON. SECRETARY, 
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School of Art, kindly lent by the Committee for the 
4} occasion, on the 4th of February, 1884. Thomas 
William Evans, Esq., M.P., presided. The Report of the 
Society’s proceedings for the past year, showing a satisfactory 
balance sheet, and an increase in the number of members, was 
read and adopted. 
The Officers for the year commencing were elected. Sir 
James Allport was elected to serve on the Council in the room 
of Mr. Beresford Wright, resigned. The following members of 
the Council retired under Rule V., viz. :—Messrs. Lawson- 
Lowe, Mello, Ussher, Robinson, Hope, Campion,, Cade, and 
Cooling. In the place of Messrs. Lowe, Mello, and Ussher, 
were elected Messrs. A. H. Dolman, W. H. Hodges, and W. 
Mallalieu. The other retiring members were re-elected. The 
Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Secretary of Finance, the Hon. 
Treasurer, and the Auditors, were also re-elected. 
In the unavoidable absence of Mr. St. John Hope, a paper 
written by him, upon the “Augustinian Priory of the Holy 
Trinity, at Repton,” was read by the Rev. W. M. Furneaux, 
Head-master of Repton School. Mr. Furneaux added ito the 
paper comments of his own, bearing upon points which had 
come under his personal notice during the recent excavations at 
Repton. 
