SESSION 1893-9-1. XV 



The thanks of the Society wevo accorded to the Eight Hon. the 

 Earl of Chirendon, Mr. John llopkinson, Mr. AVilliam Ransom, and 

 Dr. C. E. Shelly, retiring from the office of Vice-President ; to Dr. 

 John Morison, retiring from the office of Honorary Secretary ; and 

 to Mr. A. M. ]}rowu,^ Mr. J. Thornhill, the Eev. E. T. Vaughan, 

 and Mr. Percy Jenuer Weir, retiring from the Council. 



Repokt of xnE Cotincil for the Yeae 1893. 



The Council has much pleasure in reporting that the Society 

 continues to maintain a "\-igorous and prosperous condition. The 

 number of meetings held during the year has been up to the 

 average, they have been well attended, and great interest has been 

 taken in the papers which have been read. 



During the year twenty-four ordinary members have been 

 elected, and one honorary member; twenty-six members have 

 resigned; and the Council regrets to have to record the loss of one 

 member by death — Mr. E.. Eussell Carew, F.C.S., one of the 

 original members of the Society. 



The number of members at the end of the years 1892 and 1893 

 was as follows : — 



1892. 1893. 



Honorary Members 19 20 



Life Members 51 51 



Annual Subscribers 192 189 



262 260 



The following papers or lectures have been read or delivered 

 at Watford during the year : — 



Jan. 17, Man and Ape ; by Arthur StracUiug, M.E.C.S., F.Z.S. 



Feb. 21, Anniversary Adckess — Charles Darwin; by the President, John 



Hopkinsou, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.E.Met.Soc. 

 March 21, Climatological Observations taken in Hertfordshire in the year 



1891 ; by John Hopkinson. 



Notes on Birds observed in Ilertfordshire during the year 1892 ; 



by Henry Lewis. 



Notes on some Hertfordshire Mammalia ; by T. V. Roberts. 



April 18, Report on the Rainfall in Hertfordshire in 1892; by John 



Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 



Climatological Observations taken in Hertfordshire in the year 



1892 ; by John Hopkinson. 



Meteorological Observations taken at The Grange, St. Albans, 



during the year 1892 ; by John Hopkinson. 



Observations of Temperature and Rainfall taken at Throckiug 



Rectory, Buntingford, 1880-b9; by the Rev. C. W. 

 Harvey, M.A. 



The Climate of Watford, deduced from Meteorological Obser- 



vations taken during the ten years 1877-86 ; by John 

 Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 



Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertfordsliire 



during the year 1892 ; by Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc. 



A Preliminarv Introduction to the Investigation of Microscopic 



Leaf-Fung-i; by John no])kinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., FJl.M.S. 



A List of Ilertfordshire Hepaticic ; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 



Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire ; by A. E. Gibbs. 



