"WATFOED NATURAL HISTOKY SOCIETY. 



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Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., F.G.S., Down, 

 Beckenham, Kent, and the Rev. George Henslow, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., Lecturer on Botany at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 7, 

 Bentinck Terrace, Regent's Park, London, were elected Honorary 

 Members. 



The Report of the Council for 1876, and the Treasurer's Account 

 of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 



The President delivered an Address ( Vide p. 187). 



The Balloting-giass having been removed, and the lists examined 

 by the Scrutineers, the following gentlemen were declared to have 

 been duly elected as the Officers and Council for the ensuing 

 year : — 



President.— mre^ T. Brett, M.D. 



Vice-Presidents. — Arthur Cottam, F.R.A.S. ; the Right Honour- 

 able the Earl of Essex; John Evans, F.R.S.,- Y.P.S.A., V.P.G.S., 

 F.M.S., etc. ; J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S., F.R.G.S. 



Treasurer. — Charles F. Humbert, F.G.S. 



Honorary Secretary and Librarian. — John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.M.S. 



Honorary Curator. — W. Lepard Smith. 



Other Members of the Council. — R. Russell Carew, F.R.G.S., 

 F.C.S. ; E. M. Chater ; George Chippindale; Lieut. Richard B. 

 Croft, R.N., F.L.S., F.R.M.S. ; James U. Harford; J. E. Harting, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S.; Thomas Heather; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. , etc. ; John E. Littleboy; the Rev. C. M. 

 Perkins, MA. ; R. A. Piyor, B.A., F.L.S. ; Frank W. Silvester. 



It was then resolved — 



That the thanks of the Society be given to Mr. John Evans, 

 F.R.S., retiring from the office of President; to Dr. A. T. Brett 

 and Mr. C. F. Humbert, retiring from the office of Yice-President ; 

 to Mr Arthur Cottam, retiring from the office of Treasurer ; and 

 to Mr. W. M. Fawcett, Mr. George Rooper, and Mr. John 

 Sedgwick, retiring from the Council. 



The thanks of the Society were also accorded to the Honorary 

 Secretary. 



Report of the Council for 1876. 



In presenting this, their second Annual Report, the Council of 

 the "Watford Ifatural Histoiy Society and Hertfordshire Field Club 

 may again congratulate the members on the prosperity of the 

 Society, both with regard to the state of its finances and the posi- 

 tion it continues to hold as a Society doing work of permanent 

 value in the investigation of the IS'atural History of its county. 



During the year 27 Ordinary Members and three Honorary 

 Members have been elected ; ten members have compounded for 

 their annual subscription (raising the number of life members 

 from five to fifteen) ; and nineteen members — twelve of whom have 

 removed from the neighbourhood of Watford— have resigned. 



