x secretaries' report. 
Abstracts of all but two of these will be found in the Trans- 
actions. The two exceptions are of local interest, and have been 
printed in full; viz. — "The Ecclesiastical History of Old Ply- 
mouth," by Mr. J. Brooking Rowe, and "Notes on Moorland 
Churches," by Mr. James Hine. 
The average attendance has been sixty. 
Three members and five associates have joined the Society during 
the past year, the numbers at present being fifty-seven members 
and fifty-eight associates. Two gentlemen, Dr. R. F. Weymouth, 
and Mr. R. N. Worth, have been elected honorary members. 
"We regret to have to record the death of one of our honorary 
members, Sir John Bowring, ll.d., f.r.s., &c. 
At the anniversary meeting on the first of May the following 
papers were read — 
On the Expectancies of Hygienic Measures W. H. Pearse, m.d. 
On the Selection of Books to form a Free 
Library . . . .J. Shelly. 
On the Phenomenon observed on Dartmoor, 
called the " Ammell " . . . J.N.Bennett. 
The Annual Conversazione was held at Christmas. 
In the autumn the Social Science Congress held its meeting in 
Plymouth and Devonport. The Council placed the Hall at the dis- 
posal of the Committee of one of the sections. It was a very 
successful meeting, and many of the papers read and discussions 
which followed were well calculated to promote the objects in 
which different members of our Society take an interest. 
The Curator of Antiquities reports that the following interesting- 
objects have been found, and will be added to the collection in the 
Museum — 
Burnt human bones, a bronze dagger, and an amber pommel in- 
laid with gold, from an earthen barrow on Hammel Down. A 
stone implement, and portions of an urn of coarse ware, from a 
cairn on Penmoor. 
