WATFORD NATITRAL HISTORY SOCIETT. XIU 



XIV. — No Law shall be altered except by a majority of votes of the 

 Members present at a Special Meeting called for that purpose. The Council 

 may at any time, and shall, upon a requisition signed by not less than twelve 

 Members, convene a Special Meeting ; and a printed notice stating the objects 

 for which the meeting is convened shall be sent to each Member not less than 

 ten days before such meeting, at which no business shall be considered except 

 that for which it was convened. 



XV. — A copy of these Laws shall be sent by the Secretary to each Member 

 upon election to membership of the Society. 



The President then delivered an addi-ess on the work that might 

 be done by the Society in the investigation of the Natural History 

 of the County, treating briefly of some of the most important 

 points for inquiry in the sciences of Meteorology, Geology and 

 Palaeontology, Botany, and Zoology, and of the value of the 

 microscope in scientific investigation. 



A vote of thanks to the President having been moved by Mr. 

 John Hopkinson, seconded by Dr. Brett, and carried, Mr. Evans 

 briefly responded. 



The meeting then resolved itself into a Conversazione, at which the 

 following gentlemen exhibited objects under their microscopes : — 

 Dr. Brett, Mr. E. M. Chater, Mr. Arthur Cottam, Mr. A. Basil 

 Cottam, Mr. H. Sugden Evans, Mr. John Hopkinson, and Mr. J. 

 Watson Walker. 



Ordikart MEETrtfG, 11th March, 1875. 

 John Evans, Esq., V.P.R.S., etc.. President, in the Chair. 



Mrs. John Evans, Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead ; Mr. George 

 H. Gisby, Widbury Hill, Ware ; Mrs. James Hopkinson, Holly 

 Bank, Watford; Miss Juliette Scholz, Aldenham Lane, Bushey ; 

 Miss Ethel Sedgwick, Elmcote, Watford ; Mr. C. K. Smith, The 

 Hawthorns, Watford; Mr. John Wilson, 159, New Bond Street, 

 London ; and Miss Mary Wilson and Miss Rose AVilson, Grove 

 House, Bushey, were elected Members of the Society. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



"The Cretaceous Rocks of England." By J. Logan Lobley, 

 F.G.S., E.R.G.S. {Vide -page 1). 



A discussion ensued, in which Mr. W. Whitaker, of the Geo- 

 logical Survey of England, Mr. James TJ. Harford, Mr. Arthur 

 Cottam, and the President, took part. 



The following specimens were exhibited : — 



Fossils from the Cretaceous Rocks, in illustration of his lecture, 

 by Mr. Lobley. 



Fossils from the Cretaceous Rocks ; and, under the microscope, 

 Foraminifera fi'om the Chalk of Norfolk, and from the Medi- 

 terranean, by Mr. John Hopkinson. 



Foraminifera from the Chalk of Watford, and from the Red Sea, 

 under the microscope, by Mr. Arthur Cottam. 



The lecture was also illustrated by numerous maps and diagrams ; 

 the Geological Society's Geological Map of England having been 

 lent for the occasion by the Geologists' Association; a Section 



