REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Thirteenth Anniversary of the Society was held 

 in the School of Art (kindly lent by the Committee 

 for the occnsion) on Tuesday, January 27th, 1891. 

 The chair was taken by the Mayor of Derby (A. Seale Haslam, 

 Esq.), ex officio Vice-President of the Society. The report for 

 the past year, with balance sheet, was read and adopted. The 

 Mayor, in moving the adoption of the report, referred to the 

 beneiits which the Society's privileges conferred upon the 

 members, and the great usefulness of its work and of its 

 publications. He "regretted a falling-off in the illustration of 

 the Journal, and, with a view to restoring the handsome 

 illustration of some former years, he would like to contribute 

 some half-dozen or dozen illustrations towards the next volume." 

 The officers for the year commencing were elected. The Hon. 

 Secretary declared a vacancy on the Council by the death of 

 Dr. Webbe, and mentioned that the Council had offered the 

 seat to the Rev. C. H. Molineux. That gendeman having 

 declined the offer, the Hon. Secretary now proposed that Mr. A. 

 Seale Haslam be asked to accept the vacant seat. Mr. Bailey 

 seconded the proposition, and the Mayor was unanimously 

 elected. All those members of the Council retiring under 

 Rule v.— viz., Messrs. Hartshorne, Cokayne, Ward, Naylor, J. 

 Bailey, G. Bailey, W. Bemrose, and Borough — were re-elected, 

 as were the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Secretary of Finance, and 

 the Auditors. On the motion of the Rev. Dr. Cox, the Rev. 

 Charles Kerry and Mr. St. John Hope were elected honorary 

 members of the Society. Dr. Greaves was nominated delegate of 



