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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
During the year, seventeen ordinary members have been elected, 
twenty-four members have resigned, and the Council regrets to have 
to record the loss of two members by death, Mr. William A. Tooke, 
M.A., and Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, F.R.S. 
To Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys the Society owes a deep debt of gratitude. 
He was one of the original members of the Society, and one of the 
first vice-presidents in 1875, a member of the council from 1876 
until 1879, when he was elected President, from which office he 
retired by rotation in 1881, and became Yice-President until 1883, 
then being made an honorary member. During the two years of 
his presidency there were but few meetings in either division of 
the county from which he was absent. 
The census of the Society at the end of the years 1883 and 1884 
was as follows :— 
1883. 1884. 
Honorary Members.19 18 
Life Members .. 42 42 
Annual Subscribers.219 211 
280 271 
The second volume of the Society’s ‘ Transactions ’ under its 
altered title (the fourth of the entire series) has been completed, 
and the third volume has been commenced, two parts of the former, 
and three of the latter (containing together 204 pages and 6 plates) 
having been published during the year. 
For the illustrations which have appeared in the second volume, 
the Society is indebted as usual to the liberality of authors, Mr. F. 
W. Phillips having supplied the plate illustrating Chlorodesmos 
hispida , a new flagellate animalcule from the neighbourhood of 
Hertford; Mr. J. Vincent Elsden the two maps of Hertfordshire, 
showing its superficial geology and agricultural features; and Mr. 
K. B. Croft the woodcut of a tulip-tree formerly growing at 
Waltham Abbey. 
The following papers and lectures have been read or delivered 
during the year 1884 :— 
Jan. 10, at St. Albans.—Tbe Eecorded Occurrences of Land and Fresh¬ 
water Mollusca in Hertfordshire ; by W. Denison Eoebuck, 
F.L.S., and John W. Taylor. 
- Eemarks on tbe Land Mollusca, with reference to their investi¬ 
gation in Hertfordshire ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S. 
- List of Land and Fresh-water Mollusca observed in Hertfordshire ; 
by Ada Selby; J. Gwyn Jeffreys, LL.D., F.E.S., F.L.S., 
F.G.S. ; W. S. A. Griffith, F E.C.S. ; and Alfred T.Brett, 
M.D. Compiled by John Hopkinson, F.L.S. 
- 15, at "Watford.—Notes on Boulders and Boulder-clay in North 
Hertfordshire; by H. George Fordham, F.G.S. 
- On the Microscopic Structure of Boulders found in the North of 
Hertfordshire ; by J. Vincent Elsden, B.Sc., F.C.S. 
- 24, at Hertford.—On Dene Holes and Artificial Caves with Vertical 
Entrances ; by F. C. J. Spurrell, F.G.S. 
Feb. 19, at Watford.—Anniversary Address; by John Evans, D.C.L., 
LL.D., F.E.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., Vice-President. 
- 28, at Hertford.—Notes on the Protozoa of Hertfordshire, Section 
Discostomata ; by F. W. Phillips, F.L.S. 
