XVlll PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Anniveesakt Meeting, 17th FEBHTrAEY, 1880. 



(At Watfoed.) 



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



Charles Cardale Babington, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge, 5, Brookside, 

 Cambridge, and PhiUp Lutley Sekter, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., Secretary of the Zoological Society, 11, Hanover Square, 

 London, W., were elected Honorary Members of the Society. 



The Report of the Council for 1879, and the Treasurer's Account 

 of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 



The President delivered an Address. {Transactions, Yol. I, p. 85.) 



The Balloting-glass 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.— :S. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc. 



Vice-Presidents. — The Rev. Canon Bradby, M.A.; Alfred T. 

 Brett, M.D. ; the Right Hon. the Earl Cowper, K.G. ; John 

 Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. ; John E. 

 Littleboy; Reginald A. Pryor, B.A., F.L.S. 



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



Honoran/ Secretaries. — John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., 

 F.M.S. ; Richard B. Croft, R.N., F.L.S. , F.R.M.S. 



Librarian. — Arthur Cottam, F.R.A.S. 



Curator. — W. Lepard Smith. 



Other Memlers of the Council.— ?Yoi. John Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 F.C.S.; E. M. Chater; the Right Hon. the Lord Ebury, F.M.S, ; 

 the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex ; H. George Fordham, F.G.S. ; 

 James U. Harford; Sydney Humbert; J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S., 

 F.R.G.S. ; the Rev. Herbert R. Peel, M.A. ; Joseph Pollard ; 

 Frank W. Silvester, F.M.S. ; the Rev. R. Holden Webb, M.A. 



It was then resolved — 



That the thanks of the Society be given to Mr. Arthur Cottam, 

 retiring from the office of Vice-President ; to Mr. John Hopkinson, 

 Hon. Sec. retiring from the office of Librarian; and to Mr. R. R, 

 Carew, and the Rev. C. M. Perkins, retii'ing from the Council. 



Repoet of the CouNcn foe 1879. 



The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and 

 Field Club, in presenting the fifth Annual Report since the founda- 

 tion of the Society as the Watford Natural History Society and 

 Hertfordshire Field Club, has much pleasure in announcing that 

 the change which on the 1st of July took place in the constitution 

 of the Society has had very satisfactory results, having largely 

 increased the number of members in the eastern part of the county, 

 without having in any way detracted from the position the Society 



