HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
XXIX 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year :— 
President. —The Eight Honourable the Earl of Clarendon. 
Vice-Presidents. —Prof. Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., 
E. C.S. ; Percival Bosanquet; E. M. Campbell, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 
F. R.M.S., F.E.S.; Augustus Hawks; George Eooper, F.Z.S.; 
Arthur Stradling, C.M.Z.S. 
Treasurer .—John Weall. 
Hon. Secretaries. —John Morison, M.D., F.G.S., and Charles 
Edward Shelly, B.A., M.B. 
Librarian .—Upheld Green, F.G.S. 
Curator. —A. E. Gibbs, E.L.S. 
Other Members. —Allan Barraud; E. Hay craft Berry, M.D.; 
A. P. Blathwayt; Alfred T. Brett, M.D. ; Henry Cayley, E.E.C.S.; 
K. B. Croft, R.N., E.L.S., F.R.M.S.; John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., 
Treas.B.S., Pres.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. ; Daniel Hill; John Hopkin- 
son, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.R.Met.Soc. ; F. G. Lloyd ; Isaac 
Robinson; Rev. E. T. Yaughan, M.A. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. A. Fowell Buxton 
and Mr. John Hopkinson retiring from the office of Yice-President; 
to Dr. F. H. Berry retiring from the office of Librarian; and to 
Mr. W. Yerini retiring from the office of Curator. 
Report of the Council for 1888. 
The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and 
Field Club has again the pleasure of reporting the number of 
members, the amount of work done, and the number of meetings 
held. 
During the year fifteen ordinary members have been elected, 
twenty-two have resigned, and the Council regrets to have to 
record the loss of four members (one honorary member, Dr. F. Y. 
Hayden, one life member, and two annual subscribers) by death, 
thus making the number of members 
1887. 
1888. 
Honorary members .... 
19 
Life members. 
.... 42 
41 
Annual subscribers .... 
.... 197 
188 
259 
248 
The Council has to record the very serious loss the Society has 
sustained by the death of Mr. J. E. Littleboy, to whose services 
the Society has been so much indebted from its foundation, he 
having joined it in February, 1875, thus being one of the earliest 
members ; and since his first papers, 11 A Few Words on our Local 
Ferns” and “Notes on the Discovery of Impatiens fulva near 
Watford,” read 11th November, 1875, the Society has been 
indebted to him for a variety of the most useful work; more 
