REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Twentieth Anniversary of tlie Society was held, by 

 kind permission of the Committee, in the Technical 

 College, on Monday, March 21st, 1898. In the 

 absence of Sir H. H. Bemrose, who had promised to preside, 

 the chair was taken by the Hon. F. Strutt, V.P. The Report 

 for the past year was read and adopted. The Rev. R. Jowett 

 Burton was elected to the seat on the Council vacant by 

 the death of Mr. John Bailey. All the members of 

 Council .retiring under Rule V., viz., Messrs. Jourdain, Cade, 

 Gallop, Greenhough, Mallalieu, Holland, Kerry, and Ward, 

 were re-elected, as were also the Hon. Treasurer, Hon. Sec, 

 and Hon. Sec. of Finance. Mr. Keene was elected Auditor 

 in the place of Mr. Coulson, resigned, to serve with Mr. W. 

 Bemrose, who was re-elected. Messrs. Hamnett, Hamilton- 

 Wilson, Wm. Curzon, N. B. Milnes, Leslie, A. V. Haslam, 

 and R. B. Chambers, were elected members of the Society. 

 Mr. Robert Hamnett read a very interesting paper upon 

 " Melandra Castle," and exhibited various objects of interest 

 found at, or connected with, the place. The twentieth volume 

 of the Society's " Proceedings " was distributed. 



