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PROCEEDINGS. 
Treasurer. —John Weall. 
Honorary Secretaries .—A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.R.H.S.; T. E. 
Lones, M.A., LL.D., B.Sc. 
Editor. —John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.R. Met. 
Soc., Assoc. Inst. C. E., Sec. Ray Soc. 
Librarian. —Daniel Hill, F.R.H.S. 
Other Members. —Philip J. Barraud ; W. Bickerton; E. T. Burr, 
F.R.H.S.; W. R. Carter, B. A. ; Edward Mawley, Y.P.lt. Met. Soc., 
F.R.H.S., Sec. Rose Soc.; G. P. Neele; A. Restock Reid, M.D. ; 
James Iv. Riggall; W. Lepard Smith; A. Sutton, Assoc. R.S.M. ; 
W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E. ; E. T. 
Wilks, F.R.G.S. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. Lewis Evans, 
retiring from the office of President; to Mr. Alan F. Crossman, 
retiring from the office of Vice-President; and to Mr. A. E. Ekins, 
Mr. W. Gruggen, and Mr. George Rooper, retiring from the 
Council. 
Report of the Council for the Year 1902. 
The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, in 
presenting the 28th Annual Report, regrets to report a decrease 
in the number of members. During the year one corresponding 
member, Mr. William Marriott, Assist. Sec. R. Met. Soc., and three 
ordinary members, were elected; eleven members resigned; and 
the Council regrets to have to record the loss by death of one 
of the ordinary members, Mr. Aubrey C. Stoyel, who took great 
interest in the work of the Society, and had contributed a few 
short papers to its ‘ Transactions.’ 
The census of the Society at the end of the years 1901 and 
1902 was as follows :— 
Honorary Members . . . . 
1901. 
... 14 
1902. 
14 
Corresponding Members .... 
... 3 
4 
Life Members. 
... 44 
44 
Annual Subscribers. 
106 
176 
168 
The following papers or lectures were read or delivered at 
Watford during the year:— 
Jan. 7.—A Journey through Iceland ; by Arthur W. Hill, M.A. 
March 4.—Anniversary Address—Progress during the Nineteenth Century ; 
by the President, Lewis Evans, F.S.A., F.R.A.S. 
March 25.—The Climate of Hertfordshire; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 
F.G.S., F.R. Met. Soc., Assoc. Inst. C.E. 
- Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertfordshire 
during the Year 1901; by Edward Marvlev, Sec. R. Met. Soc , 
F.R.H.S. 
- Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire during the 
Year 1901; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 
