With a view to carrying out this resolution, your Council has 

 appointed a sub-committee " to consider the best means of carry- 

 ing out such a scheme." This sub-committee will be very glad 

 to hear from any member of this Society who may see his or her 

 way to help in transcribing such tables in any part of the county. 



In the autumn of last year the local papers reported a " find" 

 of Romano-British objects at Brough, in this country. We can- 

 not, however, ascertain that anything of importance came to light, 

 but should any further information come to us from friends in the 

 neighbourhood, your Council is prepared to thoroughly inves- 

 tigate this matter. 



Your Council believes that the efforts and influence of this 

 Society, through its members, has been felt during the past 

 year in several cases where the preservation of relics of the 

 past was in question. The sepulchral monuments in Longford 

 Church have been re-arranged, and are now disposed en- 

 tirely in accordance with suggestions made by one of our 

 members well able to give an opinion of value ; the font of old 

 St. Alkmund's Church, for many years reposing in the garden at 

 the " Firs," has been restored to the church. We could wish that 

 the font had been placed under cover, but hope that it may still 

 be so protected. Also the old iron gates of the old Derby Post 

 Office have been, by prompt action, rescued from destruction as 

 old iron, and are now on the premises of the Free Library. 

 Your Council would once again try to impress upon individual 

 members the importance of reporting at once any contemplated 

 demolition of ancient objects. Only a few days since we have 

 heard of the almost inevitable pulling down of a specially interesting 

 sepulchral monument, because the present representative of the 

 family cannot afford to restore it. It is much to be hoped that 

 prompt action in this case may be the means of saving to posterity 

 one more relic of past history. 



Our obituary this past year, although numerically small, six, 

 includes two vice-presidents and two elected members of Council. 

 First, we have to mourn the loss of the Dean (Bickersteth) of 

 Lichfield, one of our vice-presidents, who was always most keenly 



