REPORT. XX1U 



Lord Scarsdale entertained the visitors at tea on the occasion 

 of their visit to Kedleston, and other members of our society 

 provided like refreshment on the days when their respective 

 neighbourhoods were visited. It is contrary to the rules of the 

 R.A.I, to accept any more elaborate form of entertainment from 

 individuals other than members of their own society. 



The Institute gave a conversazione in the Museum Rooms, on 

 the evening of the 30th of July, to which every member of our 

 society had the honour of being invited ; those who took part in 

 this and in the daily meetings, either the expeditions or the 

 sectional meetings at night, will long have reason to recall, with 

 feelings of extreme gratification, the visit of the R.A.I, to Derby. 

 For ourselves we are bound to offer our very sincere thanks to the 

 then Mayor of Derby, to the Deputy-Mayor, and to the committees 

 of the Free Library, and Art Gallery, for the immense help 

 afforded to our committee of arrangement by their generous loan 

 of the Museum and Art Gallery Rooms during the time of the 

 meeting. Thanks are also due to those ladies and gentlemen in 

 the county who most kindly contributed many articles of great 

 value and interest to the loan Museum, and to the Clergy, who 

 exhibited some of the most beautiful specimens of the Church Plate 

 of Derbyshire. We must also thank warmly the authorities of the 

 Midland Railway Company, who behaved throughout with a 

 courtesy emphatically their own. A~t their concluding meeting, the 

 R.A.I. passed a most flattering vote of thanks to our society for 

 the welcome accorded to them : that this society feeis the obliga- 

 tion to be due from ourselves to the Institute, for making our 

 county a centre for its important annual meeting, will, I am sure, 

 go without saying. The meeting in Derby will, we are confident, 

 bear fruit for us, as directing more extraneous antiquarian intelli- 

 gence to our county. 



Our editor has secured for the journal Mr. Browne's invaluable 

 and highly original paper on the " Pre-Norman Stones of Derby- 

 shire." The Baron de Cosson has most kindly promised to 

 supply letterpress, when we undertake a description of the Derby- 

 shire effigies, a series which will, we hope, be commenced this 



