THE Council present their eighty-sixth Report with the Accounts for 1944.
   It is with satisfaction that they are able to report, for the first time since 1939, an increase in the membership, from 751 to 763. There is much ground to be regained in this direction and they look with confidence to all members of the Society to be active in obtaining new members, especially as the opportunity for the revival of archaeology may be not too distant.
   The Council note with regret the death during the year of the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, D.D., D.C.L., LL.D., D.Litt., a Vice President of the Society, of the Right Hon. Lord Justice Luxmoore, one of the Trustees, and of Mr. Frank Godwin, a member of the Council.
Major M. Teichman Derville, D.L., F.S.A., the President of the Society, has been appointed a Trustee and one vacancy remains to be filled.
   The General Meeting was held at Maidstone on 31st May. The President took the chair and between thirty and forty members attended the morning meeting, whilst a considerably larger number of members and their friends were present at the afternoon lectures. The lecturers were Mr. W. P. D. Stebbing, who addressed the meeting on the Letters of the Rev. Nicholas Carter, D.D., to his daughter Elizabeth, between 1729 and 1773, and Mr. 

A. L. Congreve who spoke on The Survival of the Wolf in Great Britain. Both addresses were heard with interest and the lecturers were heartily thanked.
   A generous gift of Kent books and papers from the library of the late Mr. George S. Elgood, R.I., R.O.I., who was a member of the Society for over thirty years, has been received from his niece, Miss Jane 0. S. Elgood, who stated that her uncle had desired her to offer them to the Society. Among the books, a list of which is given below, are duplicates of volumes already in the Society’s library and Miss Elgood has suggested that any duplicates which the Society does not wish to keep may be passed on to "branch societies in Kent, or individual workers ", or wherever they will be useful.
   The list of books is as follows, volumes already in the Society’s library being marked with an asterisk :— Darts’ Canterbury, 1726, Dart’s Westminster Abbey, Hasted’s History of Kent (octavo edition, 12 volumes), Kentish Genealogies, Wm. Berry, 1830, Philipot’s Kent, 2nd Edition, 1776 (two copies), MS. Index to Philipot’s Visitation of Kent, MS. Visitation of Kent, 1619, from MS. copy in the Surrenden Library, copy made by Philipot, Rouge Dragon, Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica, No. 1, History and Antiquities of Tunstall, by