REPORT OF THE HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Tenth Anniversary of the Society was held in the 

 School of Art (kindly lent by the Committee for the 

 occasion), on Monday, February 13th, 1888. Sir 

 William Evans, Bart., occupied the Chair. As 

 arrangements had been made for holding a Conversazione, which 

 had been unavoidably postponed at the last moment, the 

 proceedings at this meeting were of a purely formal character. 

 The Report of the Society's Proceedings for the past year was 

 read and adopted. The officers for the year commencing were 

 elected. The meeting confirmed the provisional election of the 

 Rev Chas. Kerry, Mr. Hartshorne, F.S.A., and Mr. A. E. 

 Cokayne, to the three seats on the Council vacant by the deaths 

 of Mr. Thos. Evans, F.G.S., and Dr. Dolman, and the resignation 

 of Mr. F. Campion. All the members of Council retiring under 

 Rule v., Messrs. Mallalieu, Webb, Holland, J. Bailey, G. Bailey, 

 Bemrose, Borough, and Cox, were re-elected, as were also the 

 Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Sec, Hon. Sec. of Finance, and the 

 Auditors. Eleven new members of the Society were elected. 



The Society held a Conversazione in the Art Gallery, by kind 

 permission of the Free Library Committee, on the evening of 

 April nth. The entrance to the Gallery was from the 

 Strand ; light refreshments, at a fixed tariff, were supplied in the 

 lower gallery, and here also was exhibited a very fine collection of 

 Rubbings of Brasses, the property of the Rev. Chas. Kerry ; the 

 ancient deed, date 1597, of the Full Street Alms Houses, with 



