a life member of the Society, has been elected a Vice-President. Under the will of Mr. Cooke the Society have received a legacy of £100, less Succession Duty, a generous gift that is especially welcome at the present time.

ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING.

   The General Meeting was held on May 29th at Maidstone Museum, by courtesy of the Museum Committee. The President of the Society was in the chair and the attendance of members was about thirty-five.
   After the Minutes had been confirmed, the adoption of the Report and Accounts was moved from the chair. The President drew attention to the salient features of the Report, mentioning with regret the loss of well-known members by death and the effect of the war on the membership and on the activities of the Society. He referred to the resignation owing to ill-health of Mr. F. W. Tyler, after so many years of valuable service as Hon. Secretary of the Records Branch and to the appointment of Mr. Frank W. Jessup, B.A., LL.B., as his successor. He appealed to members of the Society for their active co-operation in the proposals announced in the Report for the preservation of records of ancient buildings and of historic documents.
 After a brief explanation of the Accounts by the Hon. Treasurer, the Report and Accounts were unanimously adopted.

   The six retiring members of Council, Messrs. C. R. Councer, Ralph Griffin and F. W. Jessup, Sir Hugh IX. Jackson, Captain HI. W. Knocker, and Miss Anne Roper, were re-elected. There were no other nominations before the meeting.
   Messrs. A. G. B. Chittenden and E. P. Boys Richardson were elected Hon. Auditors for the current year and were thanked for their past services. Mr. Richardson had kindly assisted in the audit of the 1940 accounts owing to the death of Mr. F. C. Allwork.
   Mr. A. J. Golding was elected to fill the vacancy in the office of Hon. Librarian occasioned by the death of Mr. Walter Ruck.
   The meeting approved proposals relating to the insurance of the Society’s possessions against War Damage, and the gift of the Twisden documents to the Kent County Council for preservation among the County Archives. The question of the gold armillae was discussed and it was agreed to leave the matter for future consideration.
   Votes of thanks were accorded to the officers of the Society for their services and to the Corporation of Maidstone for granting facilities for the meeting.
On reassembling after lunch members were accompanied by their friends and the attendance reached about eighty.