March 21, 1891. 



OUR COLUMNS. 



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iReportg of 9@eetmgs of tf)e Council 



Council Meeting held loth January, 1891. — Present: Mr. Elger (in the chair), 

 Mr. Bates, Mr. T. Bull, Rev. J. Copner, Mr. Dymock, Dr. Goldsmith, Rev. Canon 

 Haddock, Mr. T. Henderson, Mr. J. W. Hill, Mr. Rowland Hill, Mr. Jackson, Mr. G. 

 Mayes, Mr. E. Ransom, Dr. Steinmetz, Mr. W. Steward, Mr. C. Wells. 



After the confirmation of the minutes of the last Council, and of the two sub-committee 

 meetings, held on Dec. 12, 1890, and Jan. 8, Mr. Jackson proposed that an advertisement 

 relating to the Institution be put alternately in the four local newspapers once a week, 

 seconded by Dr. Steinmetz, and carried. 



Mr. Knight's estimate (£12 10s.) for a bookcase to receive the Archaeological Books was 

 accepted on the motion of Dr. Steinmetz, seconded by Mr. Chas. Wells. 



The books in the proposal book, as passed by the Committee, were ordered to be 

 purchased. 



Letters were read from Dr. Garnett, of the British Museum, concerning the purchase 

 of the " Caxton Indulgence." 



On the proposition of Dr. Steinmetz, seconded by Mr. Mayes, the offer made by the 

 British Museum was declined. 



The Calendar of Wills in the Court of Husting, London (Part 2) having been presented 

 by the Corporation of London, the President was empowered to write to thank the Library 

 Committee of the Corporation for the same. 



A proposal from Mr. Webb, to remove the book and specimen cases from the Archaeo- 

 logical room on the occasion of the Masonic banquet, and to colour the walls of the Lodge 

 room, was referred to the Finance Committee. 



Mr. J. W. Hill read the report of the Finance Committee, which was adopted. 



Mr. Dymock proposed that a paper be published at occasional intervals, devoted 

 exclusively to the interests of the Institution, seconded by Mr. Elger, and carried. A 

 sub- committee, consisting of Mr. Elger, Mr. Rowland Hill, Mr. Henderson, Mr. 

 Phillpotts, and Mr. Dymock was appointed to arrange the preliminaries, and Mr. Dymock 

 and Mr. Elger were appointed joint editors. 



Mr. Jackson proposed, and Mr. Rowland Hill seconded, that Mr. Phillpotts, Mr. Elger, 

 and Mr. Mayes be a committee to report on the best method of selling one of the " Caxton 

 indulgences." — Carried. 



Mr. Elger proposed, and Mr. Mayes seconded, that the Librarian be instructed to 

 obtain prices for a suitable show-case for the coins. — Carried. 



Books ordered : — 

 Soap Bubbles, by Prof. Boys, F.R.S. 

 Spinning Tops, by Prof. Perry, F.R.S. 

 Matthew Arnold's Poems. 

 Morris' Earthly Paradise. 

 Nelson's Five Years at Panama. 

 Caine's Picturesque India. 

 Daudet's Fils d' Emigre. 

 Rogers' Manual of Bibliography. 

 Jackson's Commercial Botany. 



Oliphant's Royal Edinburgh. 

 Loti, Ma Frere Yves. 

 Feuillet's La Morte. 

 The Cambridge Shakespeare. 

 Elizabethan Dramatists (Mermaid Series). 

 Lockyer's Meteoritic Hypothesis. 

 Political and Social Letters of a Lady of the 

 18th cent., by Miss F. D. Osborn, of Chicksands. 



Council Meeting held February 5, 1891. — Present: Mr. J. S. Phillpotts (in the 

 chair), Mr. Bates, Mr. Thos. Bull, Rev. J. Copner, Mr. J. E. CutcMe, Dr. J. Coombs, Mr. 



