In presenting their Report on the past year to the General Meeting of the Fellows, the Council of the Royal Historical Society gladly give the first place to their expression of thanks to the Committee of Inquiry (appointed 18th November, 1880), for their valuable assistance, for although nearly every suggestion of theirs for the future management of the Society has been anticipated in resolutions already passed by the Council, still they feel that had not such a Committee been instituted they would probably not have had it in their power to have obtained the information on which the resolutions have been based. The Council have further to report that on the 5 th January, 1881, the Rev. Charles Rogers asked the Council to be permitted to resign the appointments of Historiographer and Secretary of the Society then and there, and under the circumstances he was permitted to do so, and the resignation was accepted. His connection with the Society in any capacity therefore ceased.