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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
Treasurer .—John Weall. 
Son. Secretary.— Morison, M.D., D.P.H., F.G.S. 
Librarian .—Upheld Green, F.G.S. 
Curator. —A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 
Other Members.— Prof. Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., 
F.C.S.; F. Haycraft Berry, M.D.; Percival Bosanquet; Arthur M. 
Brown, M.A.; W. B. Carter; Alfred Eteson, M.D.; John Evans, 
D. C.L., LL.D., Treas. R.S., Pres. S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S.; Augustus 
Hawks; C. E. Shelly, M.A., M.D.; F. W. Silvester, F.R.Met.Soc.; 
Arthur Stradling, C.M.Z.S.; John Thornhill, F.L.S. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to the Bight Honourable 
the Earl of Clarendon retiring from the office of President; to Mr. 
Augustus Hawks and Mr. Arthur Stradling retiring from the office 
of Yice-President; to Dr. C. E. Shelly retiring from the office of 
Secretary for East Herts; and to Mr. Isaac Robinson and the Rev. 
E. T. Yaughan retiring from the Council. 
Report of the Council for 1890. 
In presenting the 16th Annual Report, the Council of the 
Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club has much 
pleasure in stating that the Society still maintains a vigorous and 
flourishing condition. The number of meetings held during 1890 
was almost up to the average of former years. It is to he regretted, 
however, that the attendance of members at those meetings was not 
quite so good as might he desired. The Council ventures to hope 
that the present year will see a very considerable improvement 
in this respect, especially as the last two meetings have been very 
numerously attended. 
During the year one honorary member and sixteen ordinary 
members have been elected, thirty members have resigned, and we 
have to mourn the loss of five members by death. Amongst the 
latter is Mr. J. W. Robins, of Watford, a member of the Council, 
and Mrs. John Evans, of Nash Mills, one of our oldest members, 
who, with her husband. Dr. John Evans, F.R.S., by entertaining the 
members and their friends at our Field Meetings, and in other 
ways, has done so much to promote the interests of the Society 
since its formation in 1875. 
The census of the Society at the end of the years 1889 and 1890 
was as follows :— 
Honorary Members. 
1889. 
. . 19 
1890. 
20 
Life Members. 
, . 42 
47 
Annual Subscribers. 
, . 193 
169 
254 
236 
The following papers or lectures have 
been read 
or delivered 
during the year :— 
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