past. Mrs. Musters also exhibited many valuable relics and 

 objects of interest connected with the history of her house and 

 family, and afterwards most hospitably entertained the visitors at 

 tCT. The return journey was made from Bingham, where the 

 Great Northern Company kindly stopped a fast train, and Derby 

 was reached at 6.50 p.m. 



In July last a letter was received from the Derby Free Library 

 and Museum Committee, informing your Council " that a portion 

 of the space in the museum is now available for the reception of 

 archaeological objects connected with the town and county." 

 This should supply a need which has long been felt ; for, failing a 

 museum of our own, the proper home for archaeological objects 

 connected with the county is, unquestionably, the public museum 

 of the county town. Hitherto, having no headquarters of our 

 own, it has been impossible to attempt to form the nucleus of an 

 archjeologic il museum. By availing ourselves of this suggestion 

 on the part of the museum authorities, your Council hopes that 

 objects of interest not as yet accessible to our members may form 

 the starting point for a valuable collection of Derbyshire archaeo- 

 logical relics. 



The annual Congress of Societies in union with the Society of 

 Antiquaries was held in London on the 20th and 21st of July last. 

 The delegates for the Derbyshire Society appointed by your 

 Council, viz., your Editor, and your Hon. Secretary, both attended 

 the Congress, and had the opportunity of visiting, under the most 

 favourable auspices, the Romano-British city of Silchester, upon 

 whose excavation and the " finds " connected with it Mr. St. John 

 Hope gave so interesting a lecture at our anniversary in 1891. 

 The excavations and the collections in the rooms devoted to them 

 in the museum at Reading will well repay any effort made to 

 inspect them. 



At the meeting of the Congress, it was resolved — " That this 

 Congress recommends to the various local archaeological societies 

 the transciibing and editing of the several inscriptions on tombs 

 and memorial tablets which relate to charities and benefactions to 

 the parishes in the churches of which they are found." 



