for Darley Dale. The Rector of Darky Dale, the Rev. F. 

 i\tkinson, received the visitors at the Church, and, after giving 

 the most recent measurements of the ancient yew tree in the 

 churchyard, conducted them over the building and pointed out 

 the various features of interest From the Church the party 

 walked to Stanclifife, the grounds being thrown open to them by 

 kind permission of Lady Whitworth. The grounds, gardens, and 

 conservatories were visited under the guidance of Mr. Dawson, 

 after which tea, provided by the kind hospitality of Mr. Sleigh, 

 was taken at Darley Bridge, and the return journey to Derby was 

 made at 6.43. 



In the early part of the past year a requisition, signed by five 

 members of the Society, was sent to your Council, suggesting an 

 alteration of two of our Rules (Nos. I. and II). The discussion 

 of the question was postponed to the next Council meeting, at 

 which all the gentlemen who had signed the requisition were 

 invited to be present and to explain fully their views, members of 

 Council being notified of the proposed alteration of Rules. None 

 of those who had signed, however, attended the meeting, and 

 your Council did not feel justified, from the data before it, in 

 summoning a general meeting of the Society to discuss the 

 suggested change. The Council desires this meeting to be in- 

 formed that the proposal was to drop the title " Natural History " 

 and to extend this Society's operations to Notts. ; the title in 

 future to be " Derbyshire and Notts. Archaeological Society." 



In March last, one of our Vice-Presidents, Lord Scarsdale, 

 communicated with your Hon Sec. touching the discovery, in a 

 cave on Brassington Moor, in this county, of a quantity of bones, 

 human and brute, fragments of pottery and other articles. The 

 discovery was made by two sons of a farmer, tenant to Lord 

 Scarsdale, the cave, however, not being on his lordship's property. 

 After inspecting the cave and bones in company with Lord 

 Scarsdale, and taking the opinion of one or two good judges, the 

 discovery seemed to be one of undoubted interest, and Professor 

 Boyd Dawkins, of Owen's College, Manchester, was written to 

 for his advice. The Professor replied that the discovery ought 



