WATFORD NATURAL niSTORY SOCIETY. xlix 



Special Meetixg, 12Tn June, 1879. 



J. GwYN Jeffreys, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Presidciit, having- read the circuhir convening the meeting, 

 stated that the foUoAving new rules were submitted to the Society 

 by the Council. 



I. The Society shall be called the Hertfordshire Natural History 

 Society and Field Club ; its Head-quarters shall be at Watford ; and its 

 object shall be the investij^ation of the Jleteorology, Geology, Botany, and 

 Zoology of the County of Hertford, the publication of the results of such inves- 

 tigation, and the dissemination amongst its Members of information on Natm-al 

 History and Microscopical Science. 



II. The Society shall consist of Ordinary and Honorary Members, including 

 Ladies ; the number of Ordinary Members being xmlimited, and the number of 

 Honorary Members being limited to twenty. 



III. The management of the Society shall be vested in a Council, consisting 

 of a President, three Vice-Presidents for "West Herts and three for East Herts, a 

 Treasurer, two Honorary Secretaries (one for West and one for East Herts), a 

 Librarian, a Curator, and twelve other Members, to be elected annually, by ballot, 

 at the Anniversary Meeting, which shall be held at Watford in February in each 

 year. The President shall not hold ofhce for a longer terra than two years, and 

 in each year the senior Vice-President for each Division of the Coimty, and the 

 three senior Ordinary Members of the Council, shall not be eligible for re- 

 election ; but the Council shall have power to fill up, from these or other Members 

 of the Society, any vacancy which may occur during the year. 



IV. Not fewer than eight Ordinary Meetings of the Society shall be held in 

 each year at such places and at such times as may be determined at the preceding 

 Anniversary Meeting, but the Council shall have power to alter the day and hour 

 of any Meeting, and at any time to appoint Bye-meetings for Microscopical study 

 or other purposes ; and during the summer months Field Meetings shall also be 

 held at such times and places as the Council may direct. 



V. Minutes shall be kept of the Ordinary and Anniversary Meetings of the 

 Society, and of the meetings of the Council, and the minutes of each meeting 

 shall be read as the fii-st business of the nest ensuing meeting of the same kind 

 in the same Division of the County. At the Council Meetings, to be held at 

 Watford only, five Members shall form a quorum. 



VI. Members shall have the privilege of attending all the Anniversary, 

 Ordinary, and Field Meetings of the Society, and of inti-oducing one Visitor at 

 any such meeting, and shall be entitled to receive a copy of all publications 

 issued by the Society dm-ing their membership, and to the use of the Library in 

 accordance with the library regulations. 



VII. The Annual Subscription for Ordinary Members shall be Ten Shillings, 

 payable immediately after their election, and afterwards becoming due in advance 

 on the 1st of January in each year ; but Members elected in the last two months in 

 any year shall be exempt from the payment of subscription for that year. Xo 

 Member shall be entitled to any of the privileges of the Society whose subscrip- 

 tion is twelve months in arrear ; and any Jlember whose subscription is two years 

 in aiTear may be excluded from the Society by the Council. 



VIII. Any Ordinary Member may compound for his or her Annual Subscrip- 

 tions by a payment of Five Pounds. 



IX. All Ordinary Members shall pay an Enti-ance Fee of Ten Shillings, in 

 addition to their first year's subscription or life composition, before they are 

 entitled to any of the privileges of membership. 



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