REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Sixteenth anniversary of the Society was held (by 

 kind permission of the Committee of Technical 

 Instruction) in the School of Art on Monday, Feb- 

 ruary 19th, 1894. Sir John G. N. Alleyne, Bart., 

 presided. The report for the past year was read and adopted. 

 The Meeting confirmed the provisional election by the Council of 

 the Rev. G. A. Shaw to seat vacant by resignation of Mr. 

 Burbidge Hambly, and elected the Rev. Reginald H. C. 

 FitzHerbert to the seat vacant by the appointment of Lord 

 Hawkesbury (Mr. Foljambe) to be a Vice-President. All 

 the Members of Council retiring under Rule V., Messrs. Arnold- 

 I'jemrose, fletcher, Sir A. S. Haslam, J. Bailey, G. Bailey, W. 

 Bemrose, J. Borough, and Dr. Cox, were re-elected, as also were 

 the Hon. Sec, Hon Sec. of Finance, Hon. Treasurer, and the 

 Auditors. Four new members of the Society were elected. 



Mr. A. E. Cokayne gave some sketches from Dr. Denman's 

 Diary, /<?/;//. 1760-80, after which Mr. Arnold-Bemrose delivered 

 a most interesting Lecture, very fully illustrated by lantern 

 pictures, upon " Old Volcanoes of Derbyshire." 



The Council has met five times during the past year, with a 

 fair average attendance of the elected members. 



The Society held an expedition on Wednesday, June 20th, to 

 Breedon and Langley Priory. The party left Derby at 1 p m. in 

 brakes, and drove to Breedon Church, where the vicar, the Rev. 

 G. Crossley, received and conducted the visitors over the Church. 

 Mr. Crossley read a carefully prepared and very instructive paper 



