session 1904-1905. 
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Treasurer. —John Weall. 
Honorary Secretaries. —A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.ll.H.S.; Arthur 
Sutton, Assoc. B.S.M. 
^ Editor.— John Hopkinson, E.L.S., F.G.S., F.B.M.S., Y.P.B.Met. 
Soc., Assoc. Inst. C. E., Sec. Bay Soc. 
Librarian. —Daniel Hill, F.ll.H.S. 
Other Members. —John Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.B.S., F.C.S., 
F.I.C. ; Philip J. Barraud, F.E.S. ; W. Bickerton; E. T. Burr, 
F.ll.H.S.; Alfred E. Cox, M.B.C.S., L Il.C.P.; Arthur E. Ekins, 
F.C.S., F.I.C.; Henry Kidner, F.G.S.; T. E. Lones, M.A., LL.D., 
B.Sc.; Janies K. Biggall; W. Lepard Smith; the Bight Hon. the 
Earl of Verulam ; Henry J. Worssam. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. B. Daydon 
Jackson retiring from the office of President; to the Bight 
Honourable the Earl of Yerulam retiring from the office of Yice- 
President; and to Mr. W. B. Carter, Mr. G. P. Neele, and Mr. W. 
Whitaker, F.B.S., retiring from the Council. 
Beport op the Council por the Year 1904. 
During this, the 30th year of the Society’s existence, although 
one Honorary Member and nine Ordinary Members have been 
elected, the Council regrets to report that a rather greater number 
of Ordinary Members has been lost to the Society by death or 
resignation, and that the attendance at the Ordinary Meetings has 
fallen off. The diminished attendance may be attributed, in part, 
to the change of the evening for meetings from Tuesday to 
Wednesday in order to avoid clashing with a series of University 
Extension Lectures held in Watford. The change has proved 
unsatisfactory, owing to the large number of competing meetings 
and entertainments which fall on Y/ednesday, the early-closing day 
at Watford. It is to be feared, however, that there is a growing 
Jack of interest in the work of the Society, and the Council appeals 
to the members generally for more active support, and for their 
co-operation in making known the advantages of the Society to 
residents in the County, and more especially to new residents who 
are interested in Natural Science. 
The Society has elected as an Honorary Member, Hugh Bobert 
Mill, LL.D., D.Sc , F.B.S.E., Sec. It. Met. Soc., whose valuable 
work in connection with Meteorological Science, and especially 
rainfall, is so well known. 
The census of the Society at the end of the years 1903 and 
1904 was as follows :— 
1903. 190i. 
Honorary Members.12 13 
Corresponding Members. 5 5 
Life Members. 42 44 
Annual Subscribers. 98 93 
157 155 
