HON. SECRETARY'S REPORT. 



i]HE Fourteenth Anniversary of the Society was held in 

 the School of Art (kindly lent by the Committee for 

 the occasion) on Tuesday, February 2nd, 1892. The 

 general business meeting was held in the committee- 

 room, the Hon. Frederick Strutt presiding. The report foi- the 

 past year, with balance sheet, was read, and adopted. Sir William 

 Evans, in moving the adoption of the report, proposed that the 

 Duke of Rutland, K.G., be elected President of the Society, in 

 the room of the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., recently deceased. 

 The meeting was unanimous in approving the election of the 

 Duke of Rutland, K G., to the ofifice of President of the Society. 

 The members of Council retiring under Rule V. — Messrs. Cox, 

 Foljambe, Jolley, Jourdain, Keene, Robinson, Cade, and Gallop — 

 were all re-elected, as were the Hon. Secretary, the Hon. Secretary 

 of Finance, and the auditors. Six new members of the Society 

 were elected. A letter was read from the Duke of Devonshire 

 returning thani^s for a letter of condolence with himself and his 

 family, .sent by order of the Council, on the occasion of the death 

 of his father, the Duke of Devonshire, K.G., first President of 

 the Derbyshire Archgeological and Natural History Society. The 

 Editor, the Rev. Charles Kerry, expressed a hope that Vol. XIV. 

 of the Journal, the first issued under his editorship, would meet 

 with the approval of the members. The meeting then adjourned 

 to the Lecture Room, when the Rev. Dr. Cox gave a most 

 interesting and valuable lantern lecture, very fully illustrated, upon 

 'The Sepulchral Monuments of England." 



