REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Fifteenth Anniversary of the Society was held (by 

 kind permission of the Corporation) in the School 

 of Art on Monday, January 30th, 1893. In the 

 unavoidable absence, through illness, of the High 

 Sheriff, Joseph Paget, Esq., the chair was taken by the Hon. 

 Frederick Strutt. The report of the past year, with balance 

 sheet, was read and adopted. The meeting confirmed the pro- 

 visional election, by the Council, of the Archdeacon of Derby 

 and Mr. F. W. Bagshawe to the seats on the Council vacant by 

 the deaths of Sir J. Allport and Mr. F. J. Robinson. The 

 members of Council retiring under Rule V. — Messrs. Green- 

 hough, Mallalieu, Holland, Kerry, Hartshorne, Cokayne, Ward, 

 and Naylor — were re-elected, with the exception of Mr. Harts- 

 home, who wished to retire. Mr. Burbidge Hambly was elected 

 in place of Mr. Hartshorne. The Hon. Secretary, Hon. Secre- 

 tary of Finance, and Hon. Treasurer were all re-elected. Tiiree 

 new members of the Society were elected. 



On the conclusion of the business of the Society, a Lantern 

 Lecture, profusely illustrated, was delivered by T. Knowles, 

 Esq., President of the Burton-on-Trent Natural History and 

 Archaeological Society, upon "Some Antient Cities in the 

 Levant." 



During the past year the Council has met five times ; the 

 attendance has been regular, but the presence of a greater 

 number of the elected members would greatly help the delibe- 

 rations and work of the Council. 



