REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



IHE Seventeenth Anniversary of the Society was held, 

 by kind permission of the Committee, in the Art 

 Gallery Rooms, Strand, on Tuesday, February 12th, 

 1895, at 7 p.m. The Mayor of Derby (G. Bottomley, 

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

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

 meeting confirmed the provisional election by the Council of 

 Mr. Alex. Carrington to the seat vacant by the death of Mr. A. E. 

 Cokayne, and elected Mr. C. B. Keene to the seat vacant by the 

 death of his father, Mr. Richard Keene, and Mr. G. Bottomley to 

 the seat vacant by the resignation of the Ven. the Archdeacon of 

 Derby. All Members ot the Council retiring under Rule Y., 

 Messrs. Jolley, Jourdain, Cade, Gallop, Greenhough, Mallalieu, 

 Holland, and Kerry, were re-elected, as were also the Hon. 

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

 Auditors. 



After the business meeting a conversazione was held in the Art 

 Gallery, by invitation of the Mayor and the Council of the 

 Society. Members of the Society were asked to bring any 

 friends, and invitations were also sent to the clergy of the town, 

 and to various officials and committees. About one hundred and 

 twenty were present, the extreme cold preventing many from 

 availing themselves of the invitation. A band played in the 

 Museum, and light refreshments were served in the lower gallery. 



The Mayor, in opening the proceedings, expressed the great 

 pleasure it gave him to be present, and referred to the very 



