importance at the present time is the preservation of documents of historical significance. There is a serious risk that many such documents may fall innocent victims in the waste paper campaign~ Mr. Herbert W. Knocker, of Rysted House, Westerham, an Hon. Receiver of Records for the British Records Association, will be glad to hear from anyone who can help in this work.
   Owing to ill-health, Mr. Frank W. Tyler found himself obliged to give up the Secretaryship of the Records Branch at the end of 1940, after he had most ably filled that office for fifteen years. He has been succeeded by Mr. Frank W. Jessup, of Autumn Cottage, Ditton, near Maidstone.
   During its comparatively brief life of twenty-eight years, the Records Branch has had the misfortune to see two major wars. It survived the first, but with a diminished number of subscribers,. and there has been an inevitable fall in their number since the beginning of the present war. Unless this decline is arrested,. the work that the Records Branch can undertake is bound to suffer. Additional subscribers will be extremely welcome.

PLACE-NAMES.
   There is little to report, although some progress has been made with the survey of field and minor place-names.

EXCURSIONS.
   Owing to restrictions on the use of petrol no excursions were held during the year.

REPORTS OF LOCAL SECRETARIES & OTHERS.
   Mrs. Gardiner reports from Canterbury a find of bronze age spearheads and celts in a gravel pit at Broadoak, when a tree was uprooted. Sherds of Roman pottery, one or two bearing the potter’s name, were found during military excavations in Dane John. They await expert examination. Both finds have been deposited in the Beaney Museum.
   Mr. S. Priest states that the find of pottery and bronze brooches at Kent Works, Stone, mentioned in Archaeologia Cantiana, LI, xlvii, has been adequately described and illustrated by M. A. Cotton and K. M. Richardson as "A Belgic Cremation Site at Stone, Kent," in Proc. Prehistoric Soc., 1941 (New Series, Vol. VII), pp. 134-141. The site is one mile west of Stone Church, between Dartford and Greenhithe.
   Mr. A. Cumberland reports that the fine, timber-built watermill, Hards’ Mill, which has been a conspicuous building at the foot of East Hill, Dartford, for the last 150 years has been taken down. The work of demolition, which owing to the good state of the building, has occupied over twelve months, has been in