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PEOCEEDINGS 1887.
THE Council met, on the 28th of December 1887, in the Society's
Eooms at Maidstone Museum. Five members were present, of
whom G-eorge M. Arnold, Esq., was asked to preside.
The first copy of Archceologia Oantiana, Vol. XVII., was laid
upon the table by its Editor, Canon Scott Eobertson. This volume
contained 474 pages of printed matter, 55 Illustrations, and 27
Papers upon various branches of Archeology. Its total cost was
£527, for 985 copies. Of this cost, no less than £210 was expended
upon the 55 Illustrations.
It was resolved: "That the.Council congratulates Canon Scott
Eobertson (the Honorary Secretary and Editor) upon the issue of
the 17th Volume of Archceologia. Oantiana, and desires to express
the Society's warmest thanks for the great labour and attention he
has bestowed on the preparation, revision, and editing of that work;
o£ which this is the ninth Volume that he has himself edited and
issued."
Mr. Gt-eorge Dowker submitted a Eeport of 'the excavations at
Eichborough* outside the Eoman Castrum.
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Samuel Mercer which
stated that when the names of two new Trustees (the present Earl
Amherst and J. Or. Talbot, Esq.) were inserted in the books of the
Bank of England, our bankers, Messrs. "Wigan, Mercer, and Co.,
caused all the Society's Stock to be transferred into Consols. Mr.
Mercer adds that the total amount of the Society's Consols is
£985 : 1 : 5.
Thanks were voted to Mr. Lambert "Weston of Dover (a member
of the Society) for gratuitously photographing on an enlarged
scale, for the Society's Eoomsat Maidstone, a portrait of the Marquess
Camden (the first President of the Society), kindly lent to
Canon Scott Eobertson for this purpose, by his Lordship's daughter,
Lady Frances Pratt.
Six new members were elected.
* Printed in this volume, vide pages 6—14.
VOL. XTlll.