XV111 
PROCEEDINGS, 
The best thanks of the Society are due to the President, the 
Rev. Canon A. M. Norman, and to the Rev. H. R. Anson, 
Yicar of Sandridge, for their kindness in receiving' and 
entertaining the members at Berkhamsted and Sandridge 
respectively. 
The usual exchange of publications with other Societies has 
been effected, and several additions have been made to the 
Library by donation and purchase. 
Two parts of the thirteenth volume of the present series of 
the Society’s ‘ Transactions ’ have been published during the 
year, containing 148 pages, with 7 plates and 4 illustrations 
in the text. They contain the papers read during the session 
1905-6, and the concluding instalment of Mr. Fordham’s 
Catalogue of Hertfordshire Maps. The publication of this 
Catalogue was commenced in 1901. It is much the longest 
memoir published in the ‘ Transactions ’, of which it has occupied 
four complete parts extending over three volumes. The author 
is the first who has undertaken the laborious and difficult task 
of making an exhaustive bibliographical list of the maps of any 
English county, and his work forms a valuable contribution to 
English bibliography as well as topography, giving an account 
of all books which contain maps of Hertfordshire, and most of 
these also contain maps of other counties. A few large-paper 
copies of this Catalogue have been printed, with continuous 
pagination,'* and may be obtained for 10s. 6d. on application 
to the Society’s Librarian, Mr. Daniel Hill. 
In view of the great expense entailed upon the Society by 
the publication of this Catalogue the author has generously 
contributed half the cost of the final part. 
The improvement in the financial position of the Society is 
largely due to economies effected by the Editor, Mr. John 
Hopkinson, in connexion with the production of the ‘ Trans¬ 
actions,’ and the Society is much indebted to Mr. Hopkinson for 
this addition to his already inestimable services.! 
The Society is greatly indebted to the Watford Urban 
District Council for allowing the free use of their Council 
Chamber for meetings and of the old Board Room for the 
accommodation of the Library ; also to the Committee of the 
Hertfordshire County Museum for the use of the Museum for 
meetings at St. Albans. 
* Size 10| ins. by ins., 164 pages. 8 plates, with other illustrations. 
f Authors are now required to provide illustrations for their papers at 
their own cost, the twenty copies presented to them are cut out of the 
‘ Transactions ’ instead of being specially reprinted, and there is a slight 
reduction in the cost of printing and distribution, chiefly due to less frequent 
issue than hitherto. 
