REPORT OF THE ACTING HON. 

 SECRETARY. 



I HE Twenty-second Anniversary of the Society was 

 j held, by kind permission of the Committee, in the 

 ' Technical College, on Monday, April 2nd, 1900. 



Sir Henry H. Bemrose, Vice-President of the 

 Society, took the Chair. The Report of the last year was 

 read and adopted. The Meeting confirmed the provisional 

 appointment, by the Council, of Mr. C. E. B. Bowles to the 

 seat on the Council vacant by the death of Mr. E. Greenhough. 

 All the retiring members of Council (under Rule V.) were 

 re-elected, viz., Messrs. W. Bemrose, Bailey, Cade, and Gallop, 

 Revs. R. J. Burton, Dr. J. C. Cox, and F. C. Hipkins; as 

 were also the Hon. Secretary, Hon. Secretary of Finance, the 

 Hon. Treasurer, and the Auditors. The Hon. Secretary, 

 owing to business engagements, wished to be temporarily relieved 

 of his duties, and the Hon. Finance Secretary undertook to 

 take his place until such time as Mr. Cox's engagements should 

 enable him to resume his office. Messrs. A. V. Davies, Stephen 

 Darby, F. A. Wadsworth, C. A. Peters, and W. H. Turton 

 were elected members of the Society. A paper was read by 

 Mr. John Ward on " Roman Roads in Derbyshire," and Mr. 

 H. Arnold-Bemrose gave an address, illustrated by magic lantern 

 slides, on " Evidences of Volcanic Action, Earth Movement, 

 and Ice Work seen in some Railway Cuttings near Ashburne." 



