what was said last year respecting a proposed demolition of the 

 Chancel of the Church of Chapel-en-le-Frith. Since that time 

 the vicar of Chapel has died, and, as far as we are at present 

 informed, the whole question is in abeyance — we may hope 

 for a modification of the former ill-conceived plan. 



Application has been made, within the past year, by several 

 fresh County Societies for interchange of publications ; we are 

 now in union, in this manner, with nineteen different Societies, 

 and our library is of no small value ; the want connected with it 

 being a head-quarters of the Society, where every member could 

 have access to the volumes. 



We regret to announce the removal from tliis county of one 

 of our most useful members, the Rev. Charles Kerry ; we shall 

 all miss him at our expeditions, when he was ever ready to give 

 us the benefit of his stores of learning, in describing and explain- 

 ing. The meeting will be glad to learn that Mr. Kerry remains 

 a member of our Society, and will unite in hoping that we may 

 still see and hear a great deal of him., 



Deatli has again been busy amongst us : we have to regret the 

 loss of one member of Council, Dr. Webb, and of nine ordinary 

 members. We have this year also struck off, after due notice, the 

 names of several paper members who did not consider the 

 payment of subscriptions as part of their privileges ; as a 

 consequence, our numbers are, at the present moment somewhat 

 fewer, but we hope very speedily to raise them again to our usual 

 strength. 



The Honorary Secretary of the Natural History Section, 

 reports that the Section has held meetings at which papers have 

 been rea 1 :— 



April 15th. — "Notes on Geology of Derbyshire." H. Arnold- 

 Bemrose, 



May 13th. — "The Dover coal basin and its foreign con- 

 nections." Rev. J, M, Mello. 



Sept. 9th. — " Deep sea rock-forming organisms." G. Fletcher. 



Oct. 14th.— " Development of the age of steel." F. J, 

 Carulla. 



