XXXIV 
PROCEEDINGS, 
F.L.S.; Henry Kidner, F.G.S.; H. Langford Lewis, B.A. ; 
Gregory M. Mathews, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.TJ.; Edward Mawley, 
F.R.Met. Soc., F.R.H.S., V.M.H.; George P. Neele; A. J. 
Nicholson ; Edward J. Salisbury, B.Sc., F.L.S.; Alfred Sutton, 
Assoc. R. S.M. 
The President, on behalf of the Council, presented to 
Mr. Sutton, retiring from the office of Secretary, a complete 
set of bound volumes of the ‘ Transactions ’ of the Society, in 
recognition of his services during the past live years. 
The thanks of the Society were also accorded to Canon Norman, 
retiring from the office of President; to Dr. Daydon Jackson, 
retiring from the office of Vice-President; and to Mr. James K. 
Riggall, the Right Hon. the Earl of Verulam, and Mr. Henry J. 
Worssam, retiring from the Council. 
Report of the Council for the Year 1908. 
Except as regards the membership the improvement in the 
position of the Society which was recorded in the last annual 
report has been maintained. 
There is again a balance, though a smaller one, on the right 
side of the account, and the work of the Society in all its 
various departments has been satisfactorily carried on. The 
membership has, however, fallen off. During the year the 
Society has lost by death and resignation twelve members, and 
only seven members have been elected, the census at the ends 
of the years 1907 and 1908 respectively being as follows :— 
1907. 1908. 
Honorary Members. 13 13 
Corresponding Members .".... 6 6 
Life Members. 44 41 
Annual Subscribers. 100 98 
163 158 
By the death of Sir John Evans in May the Society has lost 
its first President and most valued member. From its founda¬ 
tion Sir John (then Mr.) Evans took an active and very 
beneficial interest in its welfare, assisting your first Secretary 
and present Editor in his earliest efforts to found the Society, 
and being ever ready to give to him the benefit of his advice, 
especially in editorial work, the comparative freedom of our 
‘ Transactions ’ from errors being greatly due to his kind help. 
Whenever any difficulty arose, such as failure in obtaining 
a lecturer for the opening meeting of a session, or even of a 
President in giving an Anniversary Address, a visit by your 
Editor to Nash Mills solved it if Sir John Evans was at home, 
and those who were members of the Society when he was 
President, and for some years later, will recollect how delightful 
it was to be accompanied by him in our field meetings, listening 
to his lucid explanations of natural phenomena and seeing how 
