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XII. The Corresponding; ^Members shall be ladies or gentlemen whose 

 association with the Society is considered by the Council to be desirable, and 

 whos(> usual place of residence is not iu the County of Hertford. 



XIII. Honorary and Corresponding Members shall be elected only at the 

 Anniversary IMeetiugs by the Members upon the recommendation of the Council, 

 not more than two Honorary Members and one Corresponding Member to be 

 elected iu any one year. 



XIV. Members wishing to resign at the terniinatiou of any year are required 

 to inform one of the Secretaries, in \^Titiiig, of their iuteutiou to do so, on or 

 before the 31st of December in that year. 



XV. The Accounts of the Society shall be made up to the 31st of December 

 in each year, and audited by two Auditors appointed at the first ensiuug Ordinary 

 Meeting ; and tlie Balance Sheet, together with a Report on the general progress 

 of the Society during the preceding year, shall be submitted to the Anniversary 

 Meeting iu February. 



XVI. AU the funded and other property of the Society shall be vested 

 in three or more Trustees, who shall be Life Members of the Society, 

 appointed by the Council. 



XVII. The Society shall discoiu'age the practice of removing rare plants 

 from the localities of which they are characteristic, and of exterminating rare 

 birds, fish, and other animals, and shall use its influence with landowners and 

 others for the protection of the characteristic birds of Hertfordshire ; the rarer 

 botanical specimens collected at the Field Meetings shall be chiefly such as can 

 be gathered without disturbing the roots of the plants ; and notes on the habits 

 of birds shall be recorded instead of collecting specimens, either of the birds 

 or of their eggs. 



XVIII. The Council may authorize the Society or any of its Members 

 to undertake the investigation of any subject of a scientific nature relating 

 to Hertfordshire, and the results of such investigation may be published by 

 the Society. 



XIX. No Rule shall be altered except by a majority of votes of the Members 

 present at a Special Meeting at Watford called for that purpose. The Council 

 may at any time, and shall upon a requisition signed by not less than twelve 

 Members, convene a Special Meeting ; and a primed notice stating the purpose 

 for which the meeting is convened shall be sent to each Member not less than 

 seven days before such meeting, at which no business shall be considered except 

 that for which it was convened. 



XX. A copy of these Rules shall be sent by one of the Secretaries to each 

 Member upon election to membership of the Society. 



Okdinaet Meeting, 13ih Pebrfaey, 1894, at Watfokd. 



Aethue Steadling, Esq., M.E..C S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 Cliair. 



Dr. Adams Clarke, Mr. Arthur Dudgeon, Mr. E. G. Oddie, 

 Mr. S. H. Spencer, jun., and Mr. W. H. Williams were elected 

 Members of the Society. 



Mr. F. C. Mahon, Wolfville, Watford, was proposed for 

 membership. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



"Crystals and Precious Stones." By G. Herbert Wailes, 

 Assoc. M.Inst. C.E. 



Mr. Wailes commenced his lecture with a historical account of 

 the uses to which crystals and precious stones have been put from 

 the earliest times, referring especially to the magical and occult 



