PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



HERTFORDSHIRE I^ATURAL HISTORY 



SOCIETY. 



Oedixart Meetlng, 2nd Octobek, 1879, at Hertford. 



J. GwTN Jeffreys, Esq., LL.D., F.E.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. M. Armstrong, Brook Lea, Hertford ; Mr. H. Beningfield, 

 High Street, Ware ; the Rev. Edward H. Bradby, M.A., Honorary 

 Canon of St. Albans, Haileyburv College, Hertford ; Mr. Arthur 

 Butler, The Slopes, Hertford; Mr. Frank M. Campbell, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., r.R.M.S., Rose Hill, Hoddesdon ; Mr. James William 

 Carlile, Ponsboume Park, Hertford ; the Honourable Henry 

 Frederick Cowper, M.P., Brocket Hall, Hatfield ; the Rev. Thomas 

 D. Croft, M.A., Kimpton Vicarage, Welwyn ; Mr. F. Macdonogh 

 Davies, Fore Street, Hertford ; Baron Robert J. Dimsdale, Essendon 

 Place, Hertford ; Dr. J. Tasker Evans, Mayor of Hertford, Fore 

 Street, Hertford; Mr. Ernest R. Evans, Fore Street, Hertford; Mr. 

 Jasper Gripper, Danes Hill, Bengeo, Hertford: Mr. Robert Hanbury, 

 Poles, Ware ; Mr. Richard Hoare, Marden Hill, Tewin, Hertford ; 

 Mr. Alfred Manser, Lampits, Hoddesdon ; Mr. Thomas Piper, Red- 

 boum ; Mr. George Price, Baldock Street, Ware ; Mr. Arthur Giles 

 Puller, Youngsbury, Ware; Mr. Abel Smith, M.P., Woodhall Park, 

 Hertford ; Mr. John F. B. Sharpe, Christ's Hospital, Hertford ; and 

 Mr. Edward Taylor, Bishop's Stortford, were proposed as Members 

 of the Society. 



The President delivered an Address. {Transactions, Yol. I, p. 1.) 



A vote of thanks to Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys having been proposed by 

 the Mayor of Hertford (Dr. J. Tasker Evans), seconded by Mr. R. 

 P. Greg, and carried, Mr. R. B. Croft proposed that the thanks of 

 the meeting be accorded to the Council for having enlarged the 

 sphere of the Society so as to allow of meetings being held in the 

 eastern part of Hertfordshire. The Watford Natural History 

 Society was, he said, well-established, had a large number of 

 members, and was in a good financial position, and yet at the re- 

 quest of members residing on this side of the county, the name of 



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