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TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY 



^^^3X SOCIETY. /^^^^r^. 



r JUL 20 1942 , 



U B R A «J. 



I. 



ADDEESS. 



By the Peesidej^t, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., 



F.G.S., etc. 



Delivered at Hertford, 2nd October, 1879. 



Ladies axd Gentlemen, — 



"When both our excellent Secretaries asked me to *'say a few 

 ■words" on the occasion of opening the session of the Hertfordshire 

 jS'atural History Society and Field Club, I certainly was not pre- 

 pared to deliver an address, as announced in the notice of this 

 meeting, because the usual anniversary address is to be given in 

 February next ; so that I hope you will not be disappointed if I do 

 not make a long and elaborate discourse, especially as your time 

 will be more agreeably occupied in examining various interesting 

 objects under the microscopes which have been so plentifully and 

 so kindly supplied for your instruction and amusement. 



After this apologetic preface I beg to propose our mutual con- 

 gratulations on the Society, under its new name, meeting for the 

 first time, and at Hertford, I may explain to such of my audience 

 as have not yet enjoyed the privilege of being members, that the 

 original title of the Society was the " Watford Natural History 

 Society and Hertfordshire Field Club," and that the name has this 

 year been changed to that which it now bears. This change of 

 name has already caused a considerable accession of members ; and 

 I hope it will produce an increased crop of scientific work, in con- 

 sequence of the area of our observations being enlarged, and of the 

 enrolment of new workers. 



VOL. I. — PART I. 1 



