REPORT OF THE HON. SECRETARY. 



HE Twenty-fifth Annual General Meeting of the 

 Society was held on Friday, April 17th, 1903, at 

 the St. James' Hotel, Derby, the Hon. F. Strutt, 

 Mayor of Derby, Vice-President of the Society, 

 presiding. The minutes of the last General Meeting and the 

 Hon. Secretary's Report of the work of the past year were 

 read and adopted. The Hon. Treasurer, Hun. Secretary, 

 Hon. Secretary of Finance, and Hon. Auditor were re-elected, 

 and also the members of the Council retiring under Rule V., 

 viz., the Revs. J. C. Cox, LL.D., R. J. Burton, and F. C. 

 Hipkins, Messrs. W. J. Andrew, G. Bailey, W. Bemrose, J. 

 Borough, and C. E. B. Bowles. Certain alterations to the 

 Rules were passed, the most important of which included 

 the Hon. Editor for the time being among the officers of 

 the Society. 



In the afternoon of April 17th, Mr. W. H. St. John Hope 

 conducted a large party round the various objects of interest 

 in Derby, visiting St. Peter's Church, the Mayor's Parlour, 

 St. Mary-on-the-Bridge, St. Alkmund's Church, All Saints' 

 Church, and St. Werburgh's Church. 



