SESSION 1899-1900. Ixi 



25th Anniversary Mekting, 20Tn March, 1900. 

 (At Watford.) 



The Right Honourable the Earl of Verulam, President, in the 

 Chair. 



The Report of the Council for 1 899, and the Treasurer's Account 

 of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 



Thomas McKenny Hughes, M.A., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S., Pro- 

 fessor of Geology in the University of Camhiidge, was elected an 

 Honorary Member of the Society. 



The President delivered an Address. {Transactions, Vol. X, 

 pp. 165-168.) 



The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 

 Council for the ensuing year : — 



President. — The Right Honourable the Earl of Verulam. 



Vice-Presidents.— ^o\m Attficld, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., 

 F.I.C.; Alan F. Grossman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; Sir John 

 Evans. K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., V.P.S.A., etc.; William 

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



Treasurer. — John Weall. 



Honorary Secretaries. — W. R. Carter, B.A. ; A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. , 

 F.R.H.S. 



Editor.— Z6\m Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.R. Met. 

 Soc, Assoc. Inst. C. E. 

 Lilrarian. — Daniel Hill. 



Otlicr J/6'wji^/-s.— Edward M. Chater ; Alfred E. Cox, M.R.C.S., 

 L.R.C.P. ; Arthur E. Ekins, F.C.S., F.I.C. ; Thomas E. Lones, 

 M.A., LL.D., B.Sc. ; John Morison, M.D., F.G.S., D.P.H. ; J. K. 

 Riggall; George Rooper, F.Z.S. ; James Saunders, A.L.S. ; F. A¥. 

 Silvester; W. Lepard Smith; G. H. Wailes, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E. 



The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. George Rooper, 

 F.Z.S., retiring fi-om the office of Vice-President ; to Mr. John 

 Hopkinson, F.L.S., retiring from the office of Honorary Secretary ; 

 to Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., retiring from the office of Curator; 

 and to Mr. Charles Ashdown, Mr. F. C. Mahon, Mr. George P. 

 Neele, and Mr. William Page, retiring from the Council. 



The following resolution, proposed in eulogistic terms by Pro- 

 fessor Attfield, and seconded by Mr. W. R. Carter, was carried 

 unanimously: — "That the best thanks of the Members of the 

 Hertfordshire jSTatural History Society and Field Club be given, 

 to Mr. John Hopkinson for his services as Secretary from the 

 inauguration of the Society in 1875 to the present year 1900, and 

 that he be requested to accept an Address from the members 

 expressive of their appreciation of the long-sustained, skilful, and 

 unselfish devotion of his time and energies to the best interests 

 of the Society." 



Mr. Hopkinson, in expressing his thanks to the members for 

 this resolution, reminded them that his services us Secretary had 



