SESSlox 1894-95. liii 



all tlicy can to farther the objects of the Society, by delivering? 

 lectures, reading; papers, or contributing the results of their 

 investigations relating to the co\inty. In this direction there is 

 plenty of scope for bibliographical research as well as for original 

 observation. 



During the year thirty-one ordinary members have been elected 

 and one cori-esponding member, twelve members have resigned, 

 thirteen have been removed from the list for non-payment of 

 subscription for several years, and the Council regrets to have 

 to record the loss of three members by death — Dr. Duncan Scott 

 of Watford, Mr. Eobert Smith of Goldings near Hertford (a life- 

 member), and ]!Jr. William Topley, F.R.S., of Croydon. 



Mr. Topley was for more than thirty years on the staff of the 

 Geological Survey. From 1862 to 1880 he was engaged in field- 

 work ; he was then appointed to superintend the publication of 

 maps and memoirs at the office of the Geological Survey in 

 Jermyn Street; and in 1893 he was entrusted with the entire 

 charge of the office. He was one of our leading authorities on 

 applied geology, especially agricultural geology and water-supply. 

 He became a member of our Society in 1892, and had promised 

 to open the present session with a lecture on Agricultural Geology. 



The census of the Society at the end of the years 1893 and 1894 

 was as follows : — 



1893. 1894. 



Honorary Members 20 20 



Correspoudiug Member 1 



Life Members 51 50 



Annual Subscribers 189 193 



260 264 



Although this shows a numerical increase of only four members, 

 the effective increase is really seventeen, for in the 1893 census 

 thirteen members were enumerated who were several years in 

 arrears with their subscriptions and who were removed from our 

 list early in 1894. 



The following papers or lectures have been read or delivered 

 at "Watford during the year : — 



Jan. 23. — The Lower Micro-organisms and their Relation to Every-day 

 Life; by D. Harvey Atffield, M.A., M.B., D.P.H. 



Feb. 13. — Crystals and Precious' Stones ; by G. Herbert AVailes, 

 Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. 



27. — Anniversar\- Address : A "Wonderful Animal ; by the President, 



Arthur StradHng, M.R.C.S., F.Z.S. 

 March 20.— The Natural History of the Salmon ; by George Eooper, F.Z.S. 

 April 17. — Report on the Rainfall in Hertfordshire in the year 1893 ; by 

 John Hopkiuson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 



Climatological Observations taken in Hertfordshire in the year 



1893 ; by John Hopkiuson. 



Meteorological Observations taken at The Grange, St. Albans, 



in the year 1893 ; by John Hopkiuson. 



• Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertfordshire 



durintr the year 1893 ; by Edward Mawley, F.li. Met. Soc, 

 F.R.H.S. 



