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It was then resolved — 



That the thanks of the Society be given to Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 P.E,.S., etc., retiring from the office of President; to Air. Arthur 

 Cottam retiring from the office of Librarian ; to Mr. W. Lepard 

 Smith retiring from the office of Curator ; and to Mr. James U. 

 Harford and the Rev. C. M. Perkins retiring from the Council. 



The thanks of the Society were also accorded to the Honorary 

 Secretaries, Mr. K. B. Croft and Mr. John Hopkinson. 



Eepoet of the Council for 1880. 



The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and 

 Field Club, in presenting the sixth Annual Report, has the pleasure 

 of announcing that the Society has considerably increased in the 

 number of its members during the year, that the papers read and 

 lectures delivered have equalled in value and interest those of 

 former years, and that both the ordinary and field meetings have 

 been successful and well-attended. 



During the year fifty-three ordinary members and two honorary 

 members have been elected ; five members have compounded for 

 their annual subscriptions ; eleven members have resigned ; one 

 after election has declined to be a member ; four have been excluded 

 from the Society for non-payment of subscriptions for three years ; 

 and the Council regrets to have to record the loss by death of 

 one of its earliest and most valued members — the Rev. R. Holden 

 Webb, M.A. 



The Census of the Society at the end of the years 1879 and 

 1880 was as follows : — 



1879. 1880. 



Honorary Members 12 14 



Life Members 26 31 



Annual Subscribers 193 225 



231 270 



The Council has to announce the completion of the second volume 

 of the ' Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society ' and 

 the commencement of the first volume of the ' Transactions of the 

 Hertfordshire Natural History Society,' two parts of each having 

 been published during the year. The ' Transactions ' of the Society 

 under its former title cease therefore with the second volume, the 

 two volumes published forming a complete work — a work which 

 has very greatly added to the knowledge of the natural history of 

 the County, especially in the departments of Meteorology, Geology, 

 Botany, and Ornithology. In Conchology, Entomology, Ichthy- 

 ology, and other branches of Zoology, something has also been done, 

 but much yet remains to be accomplished, and the same may be 

 said of the Cryptogamic Botany of the County, which has not re- 

 ceived nearly the amount of attention which has been given to the 

 Phanerogamic Botany. 



