Our ol)ituary this past year includes tlie well-known names of 

 Arkwright, Kagshawe, and Paget, all original members of our 

 Society, and all, up to the last, taking a keen interest in our work. 

 From a financial point of view, and for every reason, we should 

 like to welcome two new members for every one dead, resigned, 

 or struck off; but this is not our position. Once more we are 

 compelled, very reluctantly, to issue the smaller volume, but if by 

 so doing we can bring home to members the advantage they will 

 gain by inducing their friends to join the Society, we shall, in the 

 face of the improving balance sheet, be tolerably well satisfied 

 with the result of the nineteenth year of our proceedings. 



ARTHUR COX, 



Hon. Sec. 



Mi/l Hill, Derby, 



Jcvnttary i<^tk, 1897. 



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