■WATFOED NATTJEAL HISTORY SOCIETY. XI 



The following ladies and gentlemen were elected Members of the 

 Society by resolution : — 



Miss Benskin and Mr. John P. Benskin, High Street, Watford ; 

 Mr. C. A. Booth, Westfield, Watford ; Miss F. Cazalet, St. Albans 

 Road, Watford; Mr. Jonathan Chater, High Street, Watford; Miss 

 Clarke, The Lindens, Watford; Mr. A. Basil Cottam, St. John's 

 Road, Watford ; Miss Ada CottereU, The Stanboroughs, Watford ; 

 the Right Honourable the Lord Ebury, Moor Park, Rickmans- 

 worth; Miss Diggle and Mr. William A. Di2:gle, Queen's Road, 

 Watford; Mr. Robert Etheridge, F.R.S., F.R.S.E., V.P.G.S., 

 Palaeontologist to the Geological Survey of England, Museum, 

 Jermyn Street, London ; Miss Evans and Miss Beatrice Evans, 

 Barham Lodge, Elstree ; Mr. Walter J. Green, High Street, Wat- 

 ford ; the Honourable jforman Grosvenor, Moor Park, Rickmans- 

 worth ; Mr. Edward Harrison, Upper Xascot, AVatford ; Mr. John 

 Hart, Miss Hart, and Miss Fanny Hart, Wansford House, Watford; 

 Mr. J. E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 27, Carlton HiU, St. John's 

 Wood, London ; Mr. Charles Henson, Rutland Lodge, Watford ; 

 Mr. Henry Hicks, M.R.C.S., F.G.S., Heriot House, Hendon ; Mr. 

 John E. Littleboy, Hunton Bridge; Mr. Richard Morgan, Clarendon 

 Hotel, Watford ; Mr. Simpson Noakes, Bushey Heath ; Mr. Ber- 

 nard Piifard and Mrs. Piffard, Hill House, Hemel Hempstead ; 

 Mr. R. A. Pryor, B.A., F.L.S., Hatfield; Mr. George Rooper, 

 F.Z.S., Kascot House, Watford ; Dr. Alfred T. Rudyard, St. 

 Albans Road, Watford ; Mr. J. G. Smith, Hamper Mills, Watford ; 

 Mr. W. T. Stone, Watford Heath ; Mr. WiUiam Veiini, The 

 Ferns, Bushey Heath ; and the Rev. W. Walsh, M.A., The 

 Parsonage, St. Andrew's, Watford. 



The following gentlemen were elected as the Officers and Council 

 for the ensuing year, in addition to Mr. John Evans, ah-eady 

 elected President : — 



Vice-Presidents. — Alfred T. Brett, M.D. ; the Right Honourable 

 the Earl of Essex-, Charles F. Humbert, F.G.S. ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Treasurer. — Arthur Cottam, F.R.A.S. 



Hon. Secretary and Librarian. — John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Hon. Curator. — W. Lepard Smith. 



Otlier Members of the Council. — E. M. Chater ; George Chippin- 

 dale ; John E. Dawson, F.R.G.S., F.R.M.S. ; H. Sugden Evans. 

 F.R.M.S., F.C.S.; the Rev. W. Falconer, M.A., F.R.A.S.; 

 Admiral E. G. Fanshawe, F.R.G.S. ; W. M. Fawcett ; Thomas 

 Heather ; the Rev. R. Lee James, LL.B. ; J. Logan Lobley, 

 F.G.S., F.R.G.S. ; John Sedgwick; Frank W. Silvester. 



The following Laws, proposed for adoption by the Provisional 

 Committee, were then read and passed seriatim : — 



I. — The Society shall be called the Watford Natural History Societt 

 AND Hertfordshirb Field Club, and shall have for its object the investiga- 

 tion of the Meteorology, Geology, Botany, and Zoology of the neighbourhood of 

 Watford and the County of Hertford, and the dissemination amongst its members 

 of information on Natural History and Microscopical Science. 



