XVlll PROCEEDINGS, 



The President stated that the Society would in a few days be 

 without a home, its Library and Collections having to be removed 

 from the Board Room of the Endowed Schools because that room 

 would be required for other purposes. The Library, he said, would 

 probably be warehoused in the old Local Board Room at the 

 Waterworks, where it would be practically inaccessible. He 

 brought the matter before the meeting in the hope that someone 

 present might be able to suggest a way out of the difficulty in 

 which the Society was now placed. 



The senior Secretary mentioned that in two days the Society 

 would attain its majority, having been founded as the Watford 

 Natural History Society on the 23rd of January, 1875. 



Mr. F. C. Mahon and Mr. G. P. Neele were elected Auditors of 

 the Accounts for the year 1895. 



Anniveesaey Meeting, 25th February, 1896. 



(At Watford.) 



Arthur Stradiing, Esq., M.R.C.S., E.Z.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Report of the Council for the year 1895, and the Treasurer's 

 Account of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 



Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, F.R.S., F.L.S., Parkstone, Dorset, 

 was elected an Honorary Member of the Society. 



Mr. Frederick William Rudler, F.G.S., M.A.I., Curator of the 

 Museum of Practical Geology, Jcrmyn Street, London, S.W., was 

 elected a Corresponding Member. 



An Address was delivered on behalf of the President by Prince 

 Kropotkin, on "Mutual Aid amongst Animals." {Transactions, 

 Yol. IX, p. 1.) 



The following gentlemen were duly elected as the officers and 

 Council for the ensuing year : — 



Preside^it.—KxVavir Stradling, M.R.C.S., F.Z.S. 



rice-Presidents.— ?voic^^or John Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 F.C.S., F.I.C. ; JohnMorison, M.D., D.P.H., F.G.S. ; T. Yaughan 

 Roberts ; George Rooper, F.Z.S. 



Treasurer. — John Weall. 



Honorary Secretaries. — John Hopkinson, F.L. S., F.G.S., 

 F.R.M.S., F.R.Met.Soe. ; W. R. Carter, B.A. 



Lihrarian. — Daniel Hill. 



Curator.— K. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Other Members. — ¥. M. Campbell, F.L S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., 

 F.E.S. ; Alan F. Crossman ; Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., 

 LL.D., Sc.D., Treas.R.S., Y.P.S.A., etc.; H. George Fordham ; 

 Henry Lewis; Edward Mawley, Prcs. R. Met. Soc, F.R.H.S. ; 



