HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
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Anniversary Meeting, 17th February, 1885. 
(At Watford.) 
The Right Honourable the Earl Cowper, E.G., President, in the Chair. 
Sir Eichard Owen, K.C.B., M D., D.C.L., LL.D. F.E.S., E.L.S., 
F.G.S., etc., Sheen Lodge, Eichmond Park, East Sheen; and Henry 
Seebohm, E.L.S., E.Z.S., 22, Courtfield Gardens, Cromwell Eoad, 
London, S.W., were elected Honorary Members of the Society. 
The Eeportof the Council for 1884, and the Treasurer’s Account 
of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 
The President delivered an Address. ( Transactions , Yol. Ill, 
p. 157.) 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year :— 
President. —Professor John Attfield, Ph.D., E.E.S., E.C.S. 
Vice-Presidents. —Alfred T. Brett, M.H.; The Eight Honourable 
the Earl Cowper, K.G.; John Hopkinson, E.L.S., F.G.S., F.E.M.S., 
F.E.Met.Soc.; William liansom, F.L.S.; George Eooper, F.Z.S.; 
C. E. Shelly, B.A., M.B. 
Treasurer. —Charles E. Humbert. 
Honorary Secretaries. —Eichard B. Croft, E.N., F.L.S., F.E.M.S.; 
and Frederick George Lloyd. 
Librarian. —Allen Barraud. 
Curator. —William Verini. 
Other Members. —F. Haycraft Berry, M.B.; Alfred Fowell Bux¬ 
ton; F. Maule Campbell, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.M.S.; E. M. Chater; 
John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc. ; 
Arthur E. Gibbs; T. Mark Hovell, F.E.C.S.; John E. Littleboy ; 
F. W. Phillips, F.L.S.; Frank W. Silvester, F.E.Met.Soc.; 
Arthur Stradling, C.M.Z.S.; John Weall. 
It was then resolved— 
That the thanks of the Society be given to the Eight Honourable 
the Earl Cowper, K.G., retiring from the office of President; to Mr. 
Alfred Fowell Buxton and Mr. John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D., F.E.S., 
F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., retiring from the office of Vice- 
President ; and to the Eev. Canon Bradby, D.D., Mr. Alfred J. 
Copeland, and the Eev. Edward T. Vaughan, M.A., retiring from 
the Council. 
Eeport of the Council for 1884. 
In presenting the tenth Annual Eeport, the Council of the Hert¬ 
fordshire Natural History Society and Field Club can again con¬ 
gratulate the members upon the work done in the investigation of 
the Natural History of the County, and in the dissemination of in¬ 
formation on Natural History, as also on the number of valuable 
papers and lectures which have been read or delivered at the evening 
meetings. 
