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29TH JUNE. Whole day Meeting at Maidstone, arranged by 
F. W. Nunn, Esg., member of Council. The fine Parish 
Church of All Saints, the Archbishop’s Palace, the Col- 
lege founded by Archbishop Courtenay, and the County 
Museum in Chillingford Manor House, were visited ; 
also, by kind permission of Dudley C. Falcke, Esq., the 
remains of Allington Castle, partly dating from the 
XIII century, 
30TH SEPTEMBER. Meeting in Southwark Cathedral, under the 
guidance of the Rev. Canon R. Rhodes Bristow. After- 
wards the members visited the remains of the ‘‘George,” 
one of the old galleried inns for which Southwark was 
formerly famous. 
7TH NOVEMBER. Meeting in the Parish Church Hall, when 
Andrew Oliver, Esq., A.R.I.B.A., gave an_ illustrated 
Lecture entitled ‘‘ A Ramble in Old London,” describing 
many old buildings lying between Trafalgar Square and 
the Tower, a large number of which no longer exist. 
5TH DECEMBER. Meeting in the Parish Church Hall. Philip H. 
Newman, Esq., F.S.A., R.B.A., F.R.S.L., gave a Lecture 
upon ‘‘ Art Recollections of a Tour in Spain,” illustrated 
by upwards of ninety slides prepared from Mr. Newman’s 
own photographs. 
In April last the Council forwarded to the Worshipful 
Company of Leathersellers, a petition in favour of the preserva- 
tion of the old Almshouses founded by the Rev. Abraham 
Colfe, Vicar of Lewisham, 1610 to 1657. At the enquiry held 
on ist December in the Town Hall, Catford, by the Charity 
Commissioners, this Society was represented by Leland 
L. Duncan, M.v.o., F.S.A., Vice-President, and by E. C. 
Thurgood, Esq., member of Council, the former of whom gave 
evidence. The Commissioner’s report has not yet been made 
public; but the Council hope some scheme may be decided 
upon which will ensure the retention of the old buildings, 
‘which have been for 250 years a picturesque element in the 
High Street of the Parish.” 
The Council regrets the death during the year of the Rev. 
J. Morlais Jones, formerly a Vice-President of the Society ; and 
of James W. Ramsay, Esq., who for five years acted as 
Honorary Auditor. 
The number of Members now upon the roll of the Society 
is 170. 
The Council again desire to thank Ernest S. W. Hart, Esq. 
for undertaking the management of the lantern at the Society’s 
meetings. 
