HERTFOEDSHrUE IfATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. xlv 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " ^Notc on the Schwendcncrian Theory of Lichens." By R. 

 B. Croft, R.N., F.L.S., etc. {Transactions, Vol. I, p. 166.) 



2. " On a species of Chatospira found at Hoddesdon." By 

 F. W. Phillips. {Transactions, Vol. I, p. 168.) 



3. " Notes on Protococcus." By C. W. Nimn. 



Mr. Nuun said that he presumed the green form of Protococcus phivialis was 

 ■well known, bnt he wished to draw attention to the red variety, which he had 

 noticed year by year for the last ten years in a cast-iron shell at the base of a 

 fountain. He had never found the green variety in it, and he mentioned this 

 because it was supposed that the latter in its still form took a red tint, afterwards 

 becoming green with a small red spot once supposed to be an eye. The shell had 

 been thickly painted with red lead and then with white lead, so that the colour 

 could not be due to the iron. In a tank not ten yards distant the green variety 

 appeared as regularly as the red one did in the cast-iron shell. 



AlTNITERSARY MEETING, 15tII FeBRU.AJIY, 1881. 



(At Watford.) 



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



Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, F.M.S., etc., Dunster Lodge, Spring 

 Grove, Isleworth, was elected an Honorary Member of the Society. 



The Report of the Council for 1880, and the Treasurer's Account 

 of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 



The President delivered an Address. {Transactions, Vol. I, p. 173.) 



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. — George Kooper, F.Z.S. 



Vice-Presidents.— YvoIg?,sox John Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S. ; 

 the Rev. Canon Bradby, M.A. ; Alfred T. Brett, M.D. ; the Right 

 Honourable the Earl Cowper, K.G. ; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., 

 F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. ; John E. Littleboy. 



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



Honorary Secretaries. — JohiiHopkinson, 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. 



Lihrarian. — E. M. Chater. 



Curator. — Fi-ank W. Silvester, F.M.S. 



Other Members. — Arthur Cottam, F.li.A.S. ; the Right Hon. the 

 Lord Ebuiy, F.M.S., F.R.G.S. ; the Right Hon. the Earl of Essex ; 

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

 George Fordham, F.G.S. ; the Rev. C. W. Harvey, M.A., F.M.S. ; 

 Sydney Humbert ; J. Logan Lobley, F.G.S., F.R.G.S. ; the Rev. 

 Herbert R. Peel, M.A. ; Joseph Pollard ; Reginald A. Pryor, B.A., 

 F.L.S. ; W. Lepard Smith. 



