HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
XI 
Anniversary Meeting, 16th February, 1886. 
(At Watford.) 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
Benjamin Daydon Jackson, Sec. L.S., 2, Thorncliffe Road, 
Clapham Park, London, S.W., was elected an Honorary Member 
of the Society. 
The Report of the Council for 1885, and the Treasurer’s Account 
of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 
The President delivered an Address on “The Laws of God in 
Nature.” ( Transactions , Yol. IY, p. 1.) 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year:— 
President. —Professor John Attfield, Ph.D., E.R.S., E.I.C., F.C.S. 
Vice-Presidents. —Alfred T. Brett, M.D.; F. Maule Campbell, 
F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.S.; Richard B. Croft, R.N., F.L.S., F.R.M.S.; 
the Right Honourable the Earl Cowper, K.G. ; John Evans, D.C.L., 
LL.H., F.R.S., Pres.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc.; John Hopkinson, 
F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.R.Met.Soc. 
Treasurer. —Charles R. Humbert. 
Honorary Secretaries. —Frederick G. Lloyd and C. E. Shelly, 
B.A., M.B. 
Librarian. —F. Haycraft Berry, M.B. 
Curator.- —William Yerini. 
Other Members. —Allan Barraud ; A. P. Blathwayt ; Alfred 
Fowell Buxton ; Arthur E. Gibbs; Daniel Hill; T. Mark Hovell, 
F.R.C.S.; John E. Littleboy; John Morison, M.D. ; F. W. Phillips, 
F.L.S.; George Rooper, F.Z.S.; Frank W. Silvester, F.R.Met.Soc. ; 
Arthur Stradling, C.M.Z.S. 
The thanks of the Society were then accorded to Mr. William 
Ransom, F.L.S., and Mr. George Rooper, F.Z.S., retiring from the 
office of Yice-President; to Mr. R. B. Croft, R.N., F.L.S., retiring 
from the office of Honorary Secretary; to Mr. Allan Barraud 
retiring from the office of Librarian; and to Mr. E. M. Chater and 
Mr. John Weall retiring from the Council. 
Report of the Council for 1885. 
In presenting the Eleventh Annual Report, the Council of the 
Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club can again 
congratulate the members upon the increased amount of work done, 
as shown by the large number of papers and lectures read or 
delivered during the year, embracing a very wide range of subjects, 
several of which were by some of the highest authorities in their 
respective branches of Natural History, and also upon the increased 
interest taken by the members, as shown by their larger attendances 
at both the Ordinary and Field Meetings. 
