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Winter Meetings. — Eight Winter Meetings have been 

 held, but, with one or two exceptions, the attendance at 

 these has been lamentably small, but this has been com- 

 pensated for by their quality. The members who con- 

 tributed to the Meetings having, more or less, dealt with 

 their own investigations. This, I take to be the chief object 

 of our winter meetings, viz. :— to expound and read papers 

 on our own work. It is so easy to degenerate into a mere 

 magic lantern entertaining society, that it is refreshing to 

 have to report to the contrary. 



Our best thanks are due to the lecturers for their papers, 

 and to all who have in any way contributed to the success 

 of the exhibition meetings. 



A suggestion made by Mr. Frankland that the different 

 Sections should assist in having exhibition meetings, has 

 only partially been carried out. Still a start has been made 

 with this, which may be the seed of future development. 



I would venture to suggest for your consideration that 

 we limit our summer and winter meetings to one per month. 

 The small attendance at many of the meetings seems to 

 demand this. In this way we would hold 12 meetings per 

 annum, 5 summer and 7 winter meetings, exclusive of 

 the Annual. With regard to the Field Meetings, we have 

 now visited most parts of Cleveland, and to prevent too 

 much repetition, a limitation of the number of excursions 

 seems desirable. Fuller arrangements, too, could be made 

 for these meetings, and they might, in many instances, be 

 extended to the whole day. 



Our thanks are due to Mr. Simpson for kindly reporting 

 our meetings in the " Gazette," " Star " and " Northern 

 Echo." 



Work of the Sections. — I have included here the work 

 done at the Summer Meetings and the nature of our Winter 



Meetings. 



Archaeological Section. — There is little to report in 

 this Department. The Rev. J. C. Fowler discovered some 

 fragments of Roman Pottery at Whorlton, which were on 

 view at the Exhibition Meeting; on March 5th. 



