SESSION 1899-1900. Ivii 



Mr. F. ^Y. Adams, .Mr. W. BickortcMi, Mv. C. A. RumboU, 

 Mr. F. R. Sheehan, and Mr. Alfred Sutton, A.ll.S.M., were elected 

 ilembcrs of the Society. 



Miss Alice Hibbert-AVare, St. Margaret's, Bushey, was proposed 

 for membership. 



Mr. E. T. Burr and Mr. J. K. Iliggall were elected Auditors of 

 the Accounts for the year 1899. 



The Chairman alluded to the death, on the 14th inst., of 

 Mrs. James Hopkinson, of AVatford, whereby he said the Society 

 liad lost one of its original members, and spoke of the deep 

 sympathy which all members of the Society would feel with her 

 son, Mr. John Hopkinson, in the loss which he had sustained ; and 

 on the proposition of Mr. W. R. Carter, seconded by Mr. W. Lepard 

 Smith, a vote of condolence with Mrs. Hopkinson's family was 

 passed. 



The following paper was read : — 



" Xotes on the Place-names and Field -names of the Parish of 

 AVatford." By Percy Manning, M.A., F.S.A. {Transactions, 

 A'ol. X, pp. 19i3-212.) 



In the absence of the Author the following Report was taken 

 as I'ead : — 



"Report ox the Conference of Delegates to the British 

 Association at Dover in 1899." By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 

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



The meetings of the Conference were held on the 14th and 

 19th of September. The President of the Society, Mr. William 

 Whitaker, F.R.S., had been nominated Delegate, but in his absence 

 the Society was represented by its Honorary Member, Mr. G. J. 

 Symons, JF.R.S., a member of the Corresponding Societies' 

 Committee, who attended both meetings of the Conference. 



The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., the Chairman nominated 

 by the Council of the Association, presided at both meetings. 



First Meeting. 



Coast Erosion. — The Report of the Con-esponding Societies' 

 Committee stated that the resolution passed last year respecting 

 the desirability of securing the co-operation of the Coastguard for 

 carrying on systematic observations on coast- erosion had been 

 adopted by the British Association and favourably received by the 

 Admiralty, and that the necessary forms prepared by a Committee 

 of the Council had been issued, many having already been returned 

 filled in by the Coastguard. Copies of the forms were appended to 

 the Report. 



The Living Subterranean Fauna of Great Britain and Ireland. — 

 The Chairman delivered an Address on the animals which live in 

 caves and wells. He stated that very little was known of such 

 animals in this country, although they had been well worked out 

 on the Continent of Europe, in America, and in jS'ew Zealand. 

 "Picard,"he said, "enumerates 308 European cave-animals and 



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