SESSION 1897-98. xi 



The Report of the Couneil for the year 1897, and the Treasurer's 

 Accoimt of lucomc ami Expeuditure, were read and adopted. 



The President delivered an Address entitled " Chalk Water in 

 Hertfordshire." {Transactions, Vol. X, pp. 1-13.) 



The foUowius: gentlemen were duly elected as the officers and 

 Council for the ensuing year : — 



Fresidcnt.—^miam Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., Pres.G.S., Assoc. 

 Inst. C.E. 



Vice-Presidents.— Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., 

 Treas.RS., V.P.S.A., etc. ; T. Vaughan Roberts; George Rooper, 

 F.Z.S. ; Arthur Stradliug, M.R.C.S., F.Z.S. 



Treasurer. — John Weall. 



Honorary Secretaries. — John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., 

 F.R.MS, F.R.Met.Soc., Assoc. Inst. C. E. ; W. R. Carter, B.A. 



Librarian. — Daniel Hill. 



Curator.—X. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S., F.R.H.S. 



Other Memhers.—Joh.n Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S. ; 

 Charles Ashdown, F.C.S., F.R.G.S. ; Arthur P. Blathwayt ; 

 F. M. Campbell, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.S. ; Alan F. Crossman, 

 F.L.S. ; Herbert George Fordham ; F. C. Mahon ; John Morison, 

 M.D., F.G.S. ; George P. Neele; WiUiam Page, F.S.A. ; James 

 Saunders ; W. Lepard Smith. 



The thanks of the Society were accorded to Dr. John Morison, 

 F.G.S., retiring from the office of Vice-President, and to 

 Mr. Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc, Mr. William Ransom, 

 F.S.A., F.L.S., and Mr. G. Herbert Wailes, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E., 

 retiring from the Council. 



Report of the Council for the Year 1897. 



The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, in 

 presenting the 23rd Annual Report, regrets to announce that there 

 has again been a falling-olf in the number of members, although, 

 not nearly to the same extent as in the previous year. 



During the year ten ordinary members have been elected ; one 

 member has compounded for his annual subscription ; ten members 

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

 of five members by death — three life members, Mr. John Larkin, 

 Mr Thomas James Mann, and Major Henry Reynolds Solly ; and 

 two annual subscribers, Mr. Simpson Noakes and Mr Samuel 

 Monckton White. Mr. Noakes was one of the oldest members 

 of the Society, having been elected at the second meeting, in 

 February, 1875. He was well known and much respected at 

 Bushey, where he resided for forty years. He died at the advanced 

 age of 84. Mr. Larkin has entertained the Society at Delrow 

 Aldenham, and Major Solly at Serge Hill, Bedmond ; Mr. Monckton 

 AMiite has read papers before the Society and frequently lent his 

 oxy-hydrogen lantern to illustrate lectures at the meetings at 



