THE HON. SECRETARY'S REPORT. 

 1890. 



HE Twelfth Anniversary of the Society was held in the 

 School of Art (kindly lent by the Committee for the 

 occasion), on Friday, February 14th, 1890. The 

 chair was taken by N. C. Curzon, Esq., Vice-President 

 of the Society. The Report for the past year, with satisfactory 

 balance sheet, was read and adopted. The officers for the year 

 commencing were elected. The meeting confirmed the pro- 

 visional election by the Council of Mr. J. R. Naylor to the seat 

 vacant by the death of the Rev. M. K. S. Frith. The members 

 of Council retiring under Rule V. were — Messrs. Charlton, 

 Greenhough, Sir J. Allport, Hodges, Mallalieu, Webbe, Holland, 

 and Kerry ; of these Messrs. Greenhough, Allport, Mallalieu, 

 Webbe, Holland, and Kerry were re-elected, the other two 

 vacancies being left to be filled up at the next Council Meeting. 

 Tlie Honorary Treasurer. Honorary Secretary, Honorary Sec- 

 retary of Finance, and the Auditors were re-elected. The 

 Honorary Secretary presented to the meeting a Report, approved 

 by the Council, of a suggested scheme of amalgamation with the 

 Derbyshire Natural History and Philosophical Society. The 

 meeting accepted the Report, and agreed to the scheme of 

 amalgamation on the terms of the Report as follows : — '' It 

 has long Ijeen felt that our Society has not fulfilled its Natural 

 History mission; and it is difficult to see how matte's can impiove 



