HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
XI 
Anniversary Meeting, 21st February, 1888. 
(At Watford.) 
F. M. Campbell, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 
The Report of the Council for 1887, and the Treasurer’s Account 
of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 
The President delivered an Address on “ The Means of Protection 
possessed by Plants.” ( Transactions , Yol. Y, p. 1.) 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year :— 
President.—F. M. Campbell, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., E.E.S. 
Vice-Presidents. —Prof. Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., E.E.S., E.I.C., 
E.C.S. ; Perceval Bosanquet; Alfred Eowell Buxton; Augustus 
Hawks; John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., E.R.M.S., F.R.Met.Soc.; 
Arthur Stradling, C.M.Z.S. 
Treasurer. —John Weall. 
Hon. Secretaries. —Frederick G. Lloyd, and Charles Edward 
Shelly, B.A., M.B. 
Librarian. —F. Hay craft Berry, M.D. 
Curator. —William Yerini. 
Other Members. —Allan Barraud ; Arthur P. Blathwayt; Alfred 
T. Brett, M.D. ; Richard B. Croft, R.N., F.L.S., F.R.M.S.; John 
Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., Treas.R.S., Pres.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.; 
Upheld Green; Daniel Hill ; John E. Littleboy ; John Morison, 
M.D., F.G.S. ; Isaac Robinson; George Rooper, F.Z.S.; the Rev. 
E. T. Yaughan, M.A. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. R. B. Croft, 
F. L.S., and Dr. John Evans, F.R.S., retiring from the office of 
Yice-President; to Mr. C. R. Humbert retiring from the office of 
Treasurer; and to Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., and Dr. Mark Hovell 
retiring from the Council. 
Report of the Council for 1887. 
The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and 
Field Club has the pleasure of reporting that there is no falling oh 
in the amount of work done, in the number of meetings held, or in 
the number of members. 
During the year twenty ordinary members have been elected, 
fourteen have resigned, and the Council regrets to have to record 
the loss of six members by death, thus making the 
numbers of 
members exactly the same as last year. 
1886. 
1887. 
Honorary Members. 
. 20 
20 
Life Members . .. 
. 42 
42 
Annual Subscribers. 
. 197 
197 
259 
259 
