nERTFOEDSHTRE NATtTKAL HISTORY SOCIETY. XIX 



has attained, and the interest taken in it hy the members, in the 

 "western part. 



During the year eighty-seven ordinary members have been 

 elected ; two ordinary members have been elected honorary 

 members ; four members have compounded for their annual sub- 

 scription ; eighteen members have resigned ; three after their elec- 

 tion have declined to be members ; one has been excluded from the 

 Society for non-payment of subscription for three years ; and the 

 Council regrets to have to record the loss of four members by death 

 —Mr. Edward H. Ambler, M.R.C.S. ; Mr. Robert Clutterbuck, 

 F.G.S. ; the Rev. F. W. Goadby, M.A. ; and Mr. Alfred 0. Sedg- 

 wick. 



The census of the Society at the end of the years 1878 and 1879 

 "was as follows : — 



1878. 1879. 



Honorary Members 10 12 



Life Members 22 26 



Annual Subscribers ....,..,. 138 193 



170 231 



Four parts of the Society's ' Transactions ' have been published 

 and distributed to the members during the year, making six parts 

 of the second volume, "which "when completed will contain the pro- 

 ceedings to the end of last session. With the third volume will 

 therefore commence the proceedings of the Society under the name 

 it no-w bears. 



The following are the principal papers and lectures "which have 

 been read or delivered during the year 1879 : — 



Jan. 9, at "Watford. — Poisons not always Poisons; by Professor 



Attfield, Ph.D., F.C.S. 

 Feb. 13, at Watford. — Anniversary Address; by the President, Alfred T. 



Brett, M.D. 

 March 13, at "Watford. — The Study of Geology; by J. Logan Lobley, 



r.G.s.,r.E.G,s. 



April 10, at "Watford. — Bees and Bee-keeping; by the Rev. Herbert K. 



Peel, M.A. 

 May 13, at "Watford. — Eeduction of Meteorological Observations; by 



William Marriott, F.M S. 



Meteorological Observations taken at Wansford House, Watford, 



during the year 1878; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.M.S., 

 etc., Hon. Sec. 



Report on the Rainfall in Hertfordshire in 1878; by the Hon. 



Secretary. 



Report on Phenological Observations in Hertfordshire in 1878; 



by the Honorary Secretary. 



Remarks on the Winter of 1878-79 ; by W. Marriott, F.M.S. 



June 12, at Watford. — The Recent Discovery of Silurian Rocks in Hert- 

 fordshire, and their relation to the Water-beat iug Strata of the 

 London Basin; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., Hon. Sec. 



Oct. 2, at Hertford.— Address ; by the President, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.,F.G.S. 



21, at Watford. — Animals which have become Extinct in Britain 



within Historic Times; by J. E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 Xov. 6, at Hertford.— Work for the Society; by R. B. Croft, R.N., 

 F.L.S.,F.R.M.S. 



