REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Eighteenth Anniversary of the Society was held 

 in the School of Art, by kind permission of the 

 Committee, on Friday, March 20th, at 2.30 p.m. 

 The Rev. F. E. W. Wilmot, presided. The 

 report for the past year, with balance sheet, was read and 

 adopted. All the Members of Council retiring under Rule V. — 

 Messrs. Ward, Naylor, Arnold-Bemrose, Fletcher, Haslam, 

 Bagshawe, Shaw, and FitzHerbert were re-elected, as were 

 also the Hon. Secretary, Hon. Secretary of Finance, Hon. 

 Treasurer, and the Auditors. Messrs. Taylor-Whitehead and 

 MacFarlane and Miss Grace Hurt were elected members of 

 the Society. 



It was intended to hold a General Meeting of the Society after 

 Easter, when Mr. St. John Hope had promised an address upon 

 " Derby as it was," with the exhibit of a picture of old Derby to 

 be lent by Sir George Sitwell. The repairs, however, of the 

 picture, which was in the restorer's hands, took longer than was 

 anticipated, and this meeting had to be given up. Very unfortu- 

 nately the same fate befell the next general meeting, which was 

 announced to take place in July, and, in compliance with the 

 strongly expressed wish of several members, it was proposed to 

 make another attempt to visit the ancient city of Silchester. 



