REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



jHE Nineteenth Anniversary of the Society was held, 

 by kind permission of the Committee, in the School 

 of Art, on Monday, ist February, 1897, at 2.30 p.m. 

 The Hon. Frederick Strutt presided. The Report 

 for the past year was read and adopted. The Rev. F. C. 

 Hipkins was elected to the seat on the Council vacant by 

 the resignation of the Rev. G. A. Shaw. All those members 

 of Council retiring under Rule V., viz., Messrs. Carrington, 

 Keene, Kottomley, J. Bailey, G. Bailey, ^V. Bemrose, Borough, 

 and Dr. Cox, were re-elected, as were also the Hon. Sec, Hon. 

 Sec. of Finance, Hon. Treasurer, and Auditors. The Rev. 

 Sir Richard FitzHerbert, Bart., was elected a Life Member 

 and a Vice-President of the Society. The Revs. R. Jowett 

 Burton, R. L. Farmer, Miss Emily Arkwright, Miss Florence 

 Arkwright, Dr. Benthall, Mrs. Benthall, Messrs. H. Gaunt, 

 T. C. Simmonds, E. M. Glover, and E. Haslam were elected 

 members of the Society. At the conclusion of the business 

 part of the meeting, the Rev. Dr. Cox gave a most interesting 

 address, entitled " A talk upon the Monasteries and Monastic 

 Life in Derbyshire." The nineteenth volume of the Society's 

 "Proceedings" was distributed. 



