Xll PEOCEEDINGS, 



The revised Eules are as follows : — 



I. The Society shall be called the Hertfordshire Nati-ral History 

 Society and Field Club ; its Headquarters shall be at Watford ; and its 

 object shall be the iuvestigation of the Meteorology, Geology, Botaiiy, Zoology, 

 Ethnology, Pre-Norman ArchiBology, and Topography of the County of Hertford, 

 the publication of the results of sucli investigation, and the dissemination amongst 

 its Members of information on Physics and Biology. 



II. The Society shall consist of Ordinary, Honorary, and Corresponding 

 Members^ including Laches ; the number of Ordinary Members being unlimited, 

 the number of Honorary Members being limited to twenty, and the number 

 of Corresponding Members to ten. 



III. The Management of the Society shall be vested in a Council, consisting 

 of a President, four Vice-Presidents, a Treasurer, two Honorary Secretaries, 

 a Librarian, a Curator, and twelve other Members, to be elected annually, 

 by ballot, at the Anniversary Meeting. The President shall not hold office for 

 a longer term than two years, and in each year the senior Vice-President and 

 the tliree senior Orchnary Members of the Council shall not be eligible tor 

 re-election; but the Council shall have power to fill up, from these or other 

 Members of the Society, any vacancy which may occur dming the year. 



IV. The Anniversary Meetings of the Society shall be held at Watford 

 in February ; and Ordinary Meetings for the delivery of lectures, the reacUng 

 of papers, and discussions ; Bye Meetings for microscopical study or other 

 purposes ; and Field Meetings, shall be held at such times and places as the 

 Council may direct. 



V. Minutes shall be kept of the Ordinary and Anniversary Meetings of the 

 Society, and of the Meetings of the Council, and the Minutes of each meeting 

 shall be read as the first business of the next ensuing meeting of the same kind. 

 At the Council Meetings, to be held at Watford only, four Members shall form 

 a quorum. 



VI. All Members shall have the privilege of attending the Anniversary, 

 Ordinary, Bye, and Field Meetings of the Society, and (unless otherwise 

 determined by the Council) of introducing two Visitors at such meetings, and 

 shall be entitled to receive a copy of all the ordinary publications issued by the 

 Society during their membership, and to the use of the Library in accordance 

 with the library regulations. 



VII. Every Candidate for admission as an Ordinary Member shall be 

 proposed by two or more Members, who shall sign a certificate in recommenda- 

 tion of such candidate, one of the proposers from personal knowledge. The 

 certificate shall be read from the Chair at the Ordinary Meeting following 

 its receipt by either of the Secretaries, and the candidate shall be balloted 

 for at the next Ordinary Meeting at Watford, one black ball in six excluding. 



VIII. The Annual Subscription for Ordinary Members shall be Ten Shillings, 

 payable immediately after their election, and afterwards becoming due in advance 

 on the 1st of January in each year ; but Members elected in the lust two mouths 

 in any year shall be exempt from the payment of subscription for that year. No 

 Member shall be entitled to any of the privileges of the Society whose subscription 

 is twelve months in arrear ; and any Member whose subscription is two years 

 in arrear may be excluded from the Society by the Council. 



IX. Any OriUnary ^lember may compound for his or her Annual Subscrip- 

 tions by a payment of Five Poimds. 



X. All Ordinary Members shall pay an Entrance Fee of Ten Shillings, in 

 adchtion to their first year's subscription or life composition, before they are 

 entitled to any of tlie privileges of membership ; and the election of any ^Member 

 sh:dl be deemed void whose Entrance Fee is not paid before a second year's 

 subscription becomes due. 



XL The Honorary Members shall be ladies or gentlemen of eminence in 

 Natural Science, or who shall have done some special service to the Society, 

 aud whose usual place of residence is not in the Coimty of Hertford. 



