Joseph Henry Philpot, Esq., M.D., M.R.C.P., 61, Chester Square, S.W. Howard Proctor Ryland, Esq., Moxhull Park, Erdington, Birmingham. Andrew Robert Wylie, Esq., 7, St. George's Terrace, Regent's Park, N.W. Lincoln's Inn Library, W.C. Astor Library, New York, U.S.A. A Lecture on Huguenot history, illustrated with lantern slides, was given by Mr. W. S. Cottew. SECOND ORDINARY MEETING OF THE SESSION, 1895-96. HELD AT THE HOTEL WINDSOR, VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1896. SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART., President, in the Chair. THE Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting, held on November 13, 1895, were read and confirmed. The following were elected Fellows of the Society : M. Jean de Schlumberger, Gübwiller, Elsass. M. Pierre de Schlumberger, Gübwiller, Elsass. Mrs. Harrison, Silverton, Enfield Town. Professor Edmund Janes James, Ph.D., University of Chicago, U.S.A. Frederick Philip Le Maître, Esq., 263, Brockley Road, S.E. Edmund J. Spitta, Esq., M.R.C.S., Ivy House, Clapham Common, S. W. A Paper was read by Mr. W. J. C. Moens, V.P., on "The Relief of the Poor Members of the French Churches in England as exemplified by the practice of the Church at Sandwich." THIRD ORDINARY MEETING OF THE SESSION, 1895-96. HELD AT THE HOTEL WINDSOR, VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 11, 1896. SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART, President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting, held on January 8, were read and confirmed. The following were elected Fellows of the Society :— Francis W. Cross, Esq., 11, St. Dunstan's Terrace, Canterbury. Colonel Horace Montagu, 123, Pall Mall, S.W. Mrs. Charles Sim, 8, James Street, Buckingham Gate, S.W. Colonel Frederic Gosset, R.E., The Priory. Westward Ho ! Bideford, was elected an Honorary Fellow. A Paper was read by Mr. F. W. Cross, on "The Walloon Church in the Crypt of Canterbury Cathedral in the Sixteenth Century." TWELFTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, HELD AT THE HOTEL WINDSOR, VICTORIA STREET, WESTMINSTER, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1896. SIR HENRY W. PEEK, BART., President, in the Chair. The Minutes of the Ordinary Meeting held on March 11, were read and confirmed. The following were elected Fellows of the Society: Thomas Colyer Colyer-Fergusson, Esq., Ightham Mote, Sevenoaks, and Wombwell Hall, Gravesend. Maurice de Luze, Esq., 48, Rue d'Avian, Bordeaux. The President then read the Annual Report of the Council, as follows:: Report of the Council to the Twelfth Annual General Meeting of the Huguenot Society of London. In presenting their Report for the year May 1895 to May 1896, the Council have the satisfaction of being able to state that the Society has lost fewer Fellows by death and withdrawal than during almost any previous twelvemonth; while it has gained a larger number of new Fellows than during any one of the last three years. The result is that the number of names now on the List is 394. Of these, 376 are subscribing Fellows, and 18 are Honorary. There are also 16 English and foreign Societies with which an interchange of publications and correspondence is established. For the first few years after the Society was founded, its increase was naturally more rapid than has since been the case, but the Council do not think that the more recent rate of increase can be considered at all unsatisfactory or disappointing, but rather the contrary. It may be interesting to the Meeting to have here a brief statement of the Society's growth: Its first year closed with a total number of Fellows of 126; In 1886-87 the increase was 51 whilst the Session now ending closes, as has been already said, with an increase of 36 and a total of 376. The Treasurer's balance-sheet, to be printed with this Report, shows an income for the past year of £508 10s. 7d., and an expenditure of £436 19s. Od., leaving a balance on the 31st December last of £71 11s. 7d. The present balance this evening, after payment of all outstanding liabilities, is £190 8s. 11d. The Society also possesses the sum of £596 19s. 4d. invested in 23 per cent. Consols. The accounts have been examined and verified by the Auditors, Mr. W. Grellier and Mr. E. C. Ouvry, and the Society's thanks are due to them and especially to the Treasurer, Mr. Roumieu, for the time and attention they have devoted to every detail of the finances. Since the last Annual Meeting the second number of the fifth volume of the Proceedings has been issued, and the ninth volume of the quarto series of publications. The latter comprises the first part of the Registers of the French Church of Threadneedle Street, edited by Mr. Moens. These Registers are amongst the most important of all those with which the Society is concerned, and the present volume is the first that has dealt with any London Register. From Mr. Moens' Introduction to it, and from his review of the Huguenot Registers in the first volume of the Proceedings, it will be seen that the Threadneedle Street Registers are very bulky, |