THE Council present their eighty-fifth Report and the Accounts for 1943. The brevity of the report is again due to the paper shortage.
   The membership has fallen during the year from 765 to 751.
The Council regret to record the loss by death of the Most Noble the Marquess Camden, G.C.V.O., TD., the Rt. Rev. Ernest M. Blackie, Dean of Rochester, Mr. W. H. Aymer Vallance, F.S.A., a former Editor of Archaeologia Cantiana, and Lieut.-Colonel Victor Cazalet, M.P., Vice-Presidents of the Society; Dr. F. W. Cock, F.S.A., a well-known and much respected member of the Council and a contributor to Archaeologia Cantiana; and Mr. R. W. Strickland, the Excursion Secretary for West Kent. The Council have gratefully accepted the offer of Mr. F. C. Elliston-Erwood, F.S.A., to act as Excursion Secretary in place of Mr. Strickland, when it again becomes practicable to hold excursions.
   The General Meeting was held at Maidstone on 13th May, with the President in the Chair. The attendance of about 30 at the morning meeting rose to 84 for the afternoon lectures. Canon S. W. Wheatley, F.S.A., gave an interesting address on The historical interest of the High Street of Rochester, well illustrated by lantern slides, and 

Sir Edward Harrison followed with numerous extracts from a diary of 1750 kept by the wife of the Lord of the Manor of Ightham.
   The acquisitions of the Reference Library and Collection include the following:
   ‘The Churches of Kent (County Churches), 1913, 2 Vols., by Francis Grayling (presented by Mr. Charles Thomas); The Place-Names of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely (presented by Mr. B. W. Swithinbank); Leica Negatives of Mote Park, Maidstone, and of Marains Court Hill, a View of Tunbridge Wells from the Common, c. 1820 (print only), a Tracing of Marams Court Hill, and a List of Drawings in the British Museum by William Twopenny (5 items, presented by Mr. J. Ceci); Maps of Kent, by J. Cary, 1805, by R. Morden (no date), and by E. Bowen, 1736, Prints of Rochester Castle and Cathedral (6), and Broadsheet, Turnpike Gates, Rochester, 1792 (5 items, presented by Miss Lilian Sprules); Author’s MS. of C.R.S. and His Friends, and The Life and Death of Llewellyn Jewitt, by S. C. Hall, 1889 (presented by Mr. Henry Smetham); The Church of St. Margaret, Lower Halstow, by the Rev. A. K. W. Wright (presented by the author);