transcription of the Charity Boards in the County. The names 

 of any members or friends willing to help will be gladly 

 received. 



Our obituary this last year has been above the average. We 

 have lost ten of our Members, including two Members of Council 

 — Mr. A. E. Cokayne and Mr. Keene. Both were present at our 

 last anniversary, and Mr. Cokayne sookc. 



Mr. Keene had been on the Council since our Society was 

 founded, and was very rarely absent from our meetings. No one 

 took a truer interest in every part of our work ; no one gave more 

 kindly help, or more reliable advice. We must, one and all, miss 

 and regret him. 



The present financial position of the Society has been the 

 subject of careful and serious consideration in the past year, and 

 your Council has felt compelled, most reluctantly, to order, at least 

 for this year, the issue of a decidedly smaller and less costly 

 volume than usual. The editor has most loyally complied with 

 the Council's decision, and has spared no more p.ains over the 

 very careful production of vol. xvii. than he has over any one of 

 his former issues. Members are asked to exert themselves to 

 secure a large addition to the roll of our numbers, so that 

 an increased annual income may speedily relieve the present 

 difficulty. 



If this suggestion is acted upon, your Council will have reason 



to be well satisfied with the result of the seventeenth year of our 



proceedings. 



ARTHUR COX, 



Hon. Six. 

 /)//// Bill, Derby, 



Jdiiuary wf/i, 1895. 



