REPORT OF HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Twenty-first Anniversary of the Society was held, 

 by kind permission of the Committee, in the 

 Technical College, on Wednesday, March 8th, 1899. 

 Godfrey Meynell, Esq., Vice-President of the 

 Society, presided. The Report of the past year was read and 

 adopted. The meeting confirmed the provisional appointment 

 by the Council of the Rev. W. H. Arkwright and the Rev. F. 

 Broadhurst to the seats on the Council vacant by the death of 

 the Rev. J. Jourdain, and the removal of Mr. Geo. Fletcher. 

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

 Messrs. Naylor, Arnold-Bemrose, Sir A. Haslam, Rev. R. H. C. 

 FitzHerbert, Carrington, Keene, Bottomley, and Milnes, were 

 re-elected, as were also the Hon. Sec, Hon. Sec. of Finance, the 

 Hon Treasurer, and the auditors. Miss Burton, Mrs. W. Slater, 

 Messrs. Gregory, Peck, Lunn, Goodwin, Piatt, W. Slater, and 

 F. Adcock were elected members of the Society. The Rev. 

 F. C. Hipkins read a valuable paper upon the most recent 

 discoveries at Repton Church, and expressed a hope that the 

 Society would visit Repton at an early date. The twenty-first 

 volume of the Society's " Proceedings " was distributed. 



The first expedition of the Society for the past year was held 

 on Saturday, June 3rd, to Repton. The party left Derby in 

 special saloons attached to the 2.25 p.m. train for Willington. 

 At the bridge over the Trent, the Rev. F. C. Hipkins met the 

 visitors and led them to the site of the Antient Camp in the 

 adjacent meadows, pointing out the encampment and the 



