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The vooms -svoro decorated witli beautiful shrubs and flowers, 

 amuugst which were noticed Seaforthia elegans, Arulia elegans, 

 Abidilon rariegata, Adiaiitum gracile, Dracmia Cooperii, and 

 Dioncea Mnsicapula, lent by Mr. Francis and Mr. G. Cooper ; and 

 with fine antit^ue and modern china, mezzotints, and pictures, lent 

 by Mr. H. Kobins. 



Ordixaey Meeting, 21st October, 1879, at Watford. 

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



Mr. W. M. Armstrong, Bi'ook Lea, Hertford ; Mr. H. Beningfield, 

 High Street, Ware ; the Rev. Canon Braclby, M.A., Haileybury 

 College, Hertford; Mr. Arthur Butler, The Slopes, Hertford; Mr. 

 Frank M. Campbell, F.L.S.,F.Z.S.. F.R.M.S.,Rose Hill, Hoddesdon ; 

 Mr. James William Carlile, Ponsbourne I'ark, 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 ; liaron Robert 

 J. Dimsdale, Essendon Place, Hertford ; Dr. J. Tasker Evans, 

 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. Alfi-ed Manser, Lampits, Hoddesdon ; Mr. Thomas 

 Piper, Redbourn ; 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 elected 

 Members of the Society. 



Mr. Alfred Fowell Buxton, Easneye Park, Ware ; Mr. Thomas 

 Fowell Buxton, Easneye Park, Ware ; Miss Emily Camp, 167, 

 High Street, Watford ; Mr. Alfred Chapman, Poles, Ware ; the 

 Rev. Henry Hallet Coddington, M.A., High Cross Vicarage, 

 Ware ; Dr. George Elin, Leahoe, Hertford ; the Most Koble 

 the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., F.R.S., Hatfield House ; Colonel 

 Smyth, The Grange, Welwyn ; the Rev. W. Yalden Thomson, St. 

 Andrew's Parsonage, Watford ; the Right Honom-able the Earl of 

 Verulam, Lord Lieutenant of Hertfordshire, Gorhambury, St. 

 Albans ; and Miss Rose C. White, Maisonette, St. Albans, were 

 proposed as Members. 



The following paper was read : — 



" Animals which have become Extinct in Britain within Historic 

 Times." By James Edmund Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. {Trans- 

 act ioyis, Vol. I, p. 5.) 



The President, in proposing a vote of thanks to Mr. Harting, said that the 

 proofs he had given of the existence in Britain, within historic times, of the animals 

 enumerated, were so numerous and conchisive, that, with one possible exception, 

 they might be considered as established. lie was not quite certain as to the reindeer. 

 It was known that reindeer bones had been found both in this country and in 

 France associated with bones of the mammoth, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, all 



