the Society of Antiquaries, stating tliat, in accordance with a 

 very numerously signed requisition (this requisition originated 

 with one of the best known Members of this Society), they 

 proposed to summon a Congress of Delegates from various 

 County Societies, to consult as to the best manner of carrying 

 on, throughout the Country, systematic archjeological research. 

 Your Council, in reply, expressed its hearty concurrence, and 

 appointed as delegates for this Society, the Rev. Dr. Cox and 

 your Hon. Sec. 



Last September the attention, not only of this Society, but 

 of the whole archaeological world, was called to certain pro- 

 ceedings in the Long Gallery of Haddon Hall. In the 

 Athemeuin and in the local Press appeared many letters, 

 including some from Members of our own Society, and all 

 condemning emphatically the attempt to scrape and oil the 

 panelling in the Long Gallery. Your Council decided that an 

 expression of its opinion as representing the County Society 

 ought to be conveyed to the Duke of Rutland, and sent 

 afterwards to the local Press. The resolution adopted, and 

 forwarded to his grace, ran thus : — 



"The Council of the Derbyshire Archceological and Natural 

 History Society, having heard with deep regret of the recent 

 experiments upon the panelling of the Long Gallery at Haddon 

 Hall, begs most respectfully to suggest to his Grace the Duke 

 of Rutland the harm that they believe would accrue to this 

 valued building both artistically and archseologically, if the 

 panelling of the Long Gallery be in any way tampered with, 

 to the destruction of its time-honoured harmony. The Council 

 is of opinion that the high value of the place and its fittings 

 consists in the condition in which they have been transmitted to 

 the present time." 



The Duke of Rutland replied, thanking the Council for the 

 resolution, with an assurance that the matter had his m'ost 

 serious attention, and consenting to join the Society as a Life 

 Member. 



The possibility of forming a Derbyshire Record Society to be 



