REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 3 
bourhood he begged to thank the Society for having 
chosen this place for holding their present anniversary 
meeting. 
The Rev. F. WARRE, one of the honorary secretaries, 
announced that a letter had been received by Dr. Pring, 
the local honorary secretary, from the Duke of Northum- 
berland, expressing his grace’s regret at being unable to 
attend the meeting of the Society. 
. Mr. C. E. GiLes then read the following report ;— 
“Your Committee, in presenting their Annual Report, 
would beg to inform you that their principal undertaking 
during the past year, has been the arrangement and publi- 
cation of the first volume of the Society’s Proceedings. 
As this volume comprises a period of nearly two years, it 
is of an unusually large size, and has been a work of some 
considerable labor; involving, moreover, a large outlay 
of your funds. But your Committee believe that this 
outlay has been fully justified, as well by the new and in- 
teresting matter which the volume contains, as by the 
prospective advantage to the Society in the increase 
of its members, through making its operations more 
generally known. For any errors or imperfections in the 
details of this work, your Committee would hope that a 
kind allowance may be made ; as the task of editorship, and 
the difficulties attending publication, require an amount 
of experience, to which the members of your Committee 
have hitherto been able to lay no claim. The volume (as 
you are aware,) has been presented GRATIS to.allwho were 
members of the Society at the time of its publication ; 
the remaining copies have .been purchased by the pub- 
lisher, of whom they may be had at 6s. 6d. each. . Your 
Committee venture to hope that the future state of your 
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