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PROCEEDINGS, 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year:— 
President. —Canon A. M. Norman, M.A., D.C.L., LL.D., 
F It S T Ij S 
Vice-Presidents .—John Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., 
F.I.C.; Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., etc. ; 
B. Daydon Jackson, F.L.S.; John Morison, M.D., D.P.H., 
F.G.S. 
Treasurer. —John Weall. 
Honorary Secretaries. —A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S., F.R.H.S.; 
Arthur Sutton, Assoc. R.S.M. 
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. —William Bickerton, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.; 
Arthur Earland; G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., F.G.S.; H. Langford 
Lewis; Gregory M. Mathews, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.; 
Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc., F.R.H.S., Y.M.H.; George P. 
Neele; A. J. Nicholson; Charles Oldham, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.; 
James K. Riggall; the Right Hon. the Earl of Verulam; 
Henry J. Worssam. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. Edward 
Mawley, F. R. Met. Soc., retiring from the office of Yice-President; 
and to Mr. W. R. Carter, B.A., Mr. A. E. Ekins, F.C.S., 
Mr. Henry Kidner, F.G.S., and Mr. Y. P. Kitchin, B.A., F.E.S., 
retiring from the Council. 
Report of the Council for the Year 1907. 
The Council is enabled to report a marked improvement in 
the position of the Society. For the first time since the year 
1900 there is a substantial balance on the right side of the 
account, and the membership has again increased during the 
year. More meetings, both evening meetings and field meetings, 
have been held, and generally there has been a revival of interest 
in the proceedings. At several of the evening meetings, 
especially those held at St. Albans, specimens and objects of 
interest to naturalists have been exhibited by members, and this 
feature has added considerably to the interest of the meetings. 
The Society has lost during the year, by death and resignation, 
eight ordinary members, but twelve members have been elected. 
The census at the ends of the years 1906 and 1907 respectively 
was as follows :— 
1906. 1907. 
Honorary members.13 13 
Corresponding members. 6 6 
Life members. 42 44 
Annual subscribers ....... 98 100 
159 163 
