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Twenty=Third Annual Report, 1907. 
The Council is glad to be able to report another successful | 
year’s work. The meetings of the Society during 1907 were 
nine in number :— 
15TH JANUARY. Annual General Meeting held in the Parish 
Church Hall. Sir E. W. Brabrook, c.B., v.pP.S.A., etc., 
President of the Society, read a paper upon ‘‘ The 
Progress of Antiquarian Research up to and in the XIX 
Century.” This paper has since been printed in the 
“* Antiquary.” 
19TH FEBRUARY. Meeting in the Parish Church Hall, when 
C. A. Spon, Esq., Hon. Treasurer of the Society, gave 
an illustrated Lecture entitled ‘‘ A Visit to Cracow—the 
Old Capital of Poland.” 
12TH Marcu. Meeting in the Parish Church Hall, when a 
paper was read by George C. Druce, Esq., upon ‘‘ Animal 
Sculptures in Church Architecture, and their meaning,” 
which was illustrated by lantern slides. 
16TH ApRiIL. Meeting in the Parish Church Hall. Lewis C. 
Thomson, Esq., a member of the Council, read a paper 
upon ‘‘ Early Man in Devon, with special reference to 
Dartmoor,” with lantern views. 
8tH May. Whole day Meeting in Tunbridge Wells and 
neighbourhood, under the direction of J. H. Porter, Esq., 
a member of the Council, when the ruins of Bayham 
Abbey, Scotney Castle, and Goudhurst Church were 
visited ; descriptive notes being read by Mr. Porter. 
8tH JuNE. Meeting at Otford, arranged by Lewis C. 
Thomson, Esq., when the principal objects of interest 
visited were the ruins of the former Palace of the Arch- 
bishops of Canterbury, Becket’s Well, the ‘* Bull. Inn,” 
built in 1650, and Otford Parish Church. Short papers 
upon these buildings were read by Mr. Thomson. 
5TH OcToBerR. A visit was paid to the Church and Crypt of St. 
John’s, Clerkenwell, under the guidance of Mr. Church- 
warden Fincham, who gave an interesting account of the 
Knights Hospitallers of St. John; and to the Church of 
St. Giles, Cripplegate, where the Rev. Prebendary Barff, 
Vicar, kindly acted as guide. 
19TH NOVEMBER. Meeting at the Parish Church Hall, when 
Leland L. Duncan, Esq., M.v.0., F.S.A., a Vice-President 
of the Society, gave a Lecture entitled ‘‘An Archeological 
Holiday in Kent,” illustrated by specially prepared slides 
from Mr. Duncan’s own photographs. 
