PEOCEEDINGS, 



202nd Oedinaey Meeting, 14th December, 1897, at "Watford. 



William Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., E.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. D. Harvey Attfielcl, Mr. T. Morgan Harvey, Miss Geraldine 

 Keating, Mr. George Pearson, and Mr. Hem"y J. Worssam were 

 elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. Frederick Goodyear, Fallow Corner, North Finchley, was 

 proposed for membership. 



The President announced that the Council had resolved to accept 

 an offer made by Mr. H. George Fordham to prepare for the 

 Society a catalogue of Hertfordshii'e maps. He hoped that 

 members and others who possessed old maps of the county would 

 give Mr. Fordham particulars of them. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



"A Visit to Canada and the Falls of Niagara." By John 

 Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., Hon. Sec. 



This was an account of a visit to Quebec, Montreal, Toronto, 

 Niagara, etc., made in August by Mr. Hopkinson, who attended the 

 Toronto meeting of the British Association as Secretary to the 

 Conference of Delegates of Scientific Societies, and represented 

 the Society at this Conference. 



The lecture was illustrated by a large number of photographic 

 yiews shown by means of the Society's oxy-hydrogen lantern. 



203rd Ordinary Meeting, 25th Januaky, 1898, at Watford. 



William Whitaker, B.A., F.E.S., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Frederick Goodyear was elected a Member of the Society. 

 Mr. Henry John Ryman, Thorpedale, Chorleywood, Rickmans- 

 worth, was proposed for membership. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



" Nature on and around Mount Sinai." By D. Harvey Attfield, 

 M.A., M.B., D.P.H., late Medical Officer to the Egyptian Maritime 

 and Quarantine Board of Health. 



The lecture was illustrated by numerous lantern-views, chiefly 

 from photographs taken by the author. 



Mr. Ai'thur P. Blathwayt and Mr. Alfred E. Cox were elected 

 Auditors of the Accounts for the year 1897. 



23rd Anniversary Meeting, 22nd February, 1898. 

 (At Watford.) 



W^iLLiAM Whitaker, B.A., F.E.S., Prcs.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E., 

 President, in the Chair. 



