lii PKOCEEDINGS, 



A letter was read from the President, Mr. Arthur Stradling', 

 M.R.C.S., r.Z.S., regretting his inahility to be present on account 

 of ill-health, and promising to deliver his Anniversary Address at 

 a future meeting of the Society. 



Sir John Evans, K.C.B., delivered an Address on "The Stone 

 Age in Hertfordshire." {Transactions, Yol. VIII, p. 169.) 



Stone implements found in Hertfordshire, etc., were exhibited 

 by the author in illustration of his address. 



The following gentlemen were duly elected as the officers and 

 Council for the ensuing year : — 



President. — Henry Seebohm, P.L.S., F.Z.S., Sec.R.Gr.S. 



Vice-Fresidents.—Vroic^sor John Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., 

 PCS., r.I.C; Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., 

 Treas.R.S., V.P.S.A., etc. ; John Morison, M.D., D.P.H., F.G.S. ; 

 Arthur Stradling, M.R.C.S., E.Z.S. 



Treasurer. — John Weall. 



Honorary Secretaries. — JohnHopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R. M.S., 

 F.R.Met. Soc. ; F. M. Campbell, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.K.M.S., F.E.S. 



Lihrarian. — W. R. Carter, B.A. 



Curator.— K. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



Other jVemlers.—klhcA T. Brett, M.D. ; H. George Fordham ; 

 Daniel Hill; Henry Lewis; Edward Mawley, F.R.Met. Soc, 

 F.R.H.S.; William Ransom, F.S.A., F.L.S.; T. Vaughan Roberts; 

 Stephen Salter; Frank W. Silvester; Rev. E. T. Vaughan, M.A. ; 

 George Herbert Wailes, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E ; Henry Warner. 



The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. Arthur Stradling 

 retiring from the office of President ; to Mr. Upfield Green, retiring 

 from the office of Vice-President ; and to Mr. A. P. Blathwayt, 

 Mr. R, B. Croft, and Mr. George Rooper, retiring from the Council. 



Report oe the Council for the Tear 1894. 



The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, in 

 presenting the 2()th Annual Report, may congratulate the members 

 on the continued prosperity of the Society after an existence of 

 twenty years. At the same time it may be pointed out that 

 the number of members who take an active part in the work 

 of the Society is very small, and has considerably decreased 

 within the last ten years, not nearly so many members contributing 

 papers in the second decade of the Society's existence as in 

 the first. This is not due to exhaustion of material, for the 

 investigation of the flora and fauna of the county is very far from 

 completion, and the scope of the Society has lately been much 

 widened, its objects now including the investigation of the 

 Ethnology, Pre-Norraan Archoeology, and Topography of Hert- 

 fordshire, as well as that of its Meteorology, Geology, Botany, and 

 Zoology, and the study of Physical as well as of Biological Science. 

 The Council would, therefore, urge upon the members to do 



