SECRETARIES' REPORT. 
1883-84. 
In presenting the following Eeport of the Proceedings of the 
Society during the past year, the Secretaries have to observe that 
steady progress continues to characterize the life of the Institution. 
Many Members and Associates have joined the Institution during 
the year, and allowing for the vacancies which have occurred 
through death and other causes, there are on the books — Eighty- 
one lecturing members, one hundred and twenty-seven associates, 
twenty-one lady associates, and one junior associate, making a total 
of two hundred and thirty, in addition to twenty-one honorary, 
corresponding, and life members. 
The meetings have been fairly well attended, the average for the 
Session being eighty- three each lecture night. 
The lectures, of which twenty-two have been delivered, were of 
varied and general interest, while the discussions were well 
sustained. 
Mr. John Shelly being unavoidably compelled to postpone the 
reading of his paper, Mr. W. E. Odgers kindly took his place on 
exceedingly short notice, and read a paper on " Overcrowding of 
the Poor in our Large Cities." 
The Eev. W. E. Darby read a paper on Shakspere's Tempest, in 
place of the one announced. 
Mr. J. C. Inglis withdrew his lecture, and Mr. John Shelly 
filled his place with his paper on " Land Tenure in India." 
With these exceptions, the published course was adhered to. 
The proceedings of the Society were as follows : 
1883. 
Oct. 4. Conversazione. 
„ 11. The President's Address. 
„ 18. Books and Libraries of Yore . M. O. W. R. Brugmann. 
„ 25. Local Heraldry . . . Mr. Arthur J. Jewers, f.s.a. 
