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PROCEEDINGS, 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year:— 
President. —The Hon. L. Walter Rothschild, Ph.D., F.R.S., 
F. L.S., F.Z.S. 
Vice-Presidents. —William Bickerton, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; 
G. W. Lamplugh, F.R.S., F.G-.S. ; Gregory M. Mathews, 
F.R.S.E., F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; Canon A. M. Norman, 
M.A., D.C.L., LL.H., F.R.S., F.L.S. 
Treasurer.— John Weall. 
Honorary Secretaries.—A.. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S., F.R.H.S.; 
Charles Oldham, F.Z.S., B.M.O.U. 
Editor.— John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G-.S., F.Z.S., F.R.Met. 
Soc,, Assoc.Inst.C.E., Sec.RavSoc. 
Librarian.— Daniel Hill, F.R.H.S. 
Other Members. —Philip J. Barraud, F.E.S. ; Arthur E. Ekins, 
F.C.S., F.I.C.; Canon Gr. H. P. Glossop, M.A. ; William Hill, 
F. G-.S. ; John Hunt, F.Z.S. ; B. Daydon Jackson, Ph.D., F.L.S.; 
Henry Kidner, F.G.S. ; George P. Neele; James K. Riggall; 
G. J. Roberts ; E. J. Salisbury, B.Sc., F.L.S.; Alfred Sutton, 
Assoc. R.S.M. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. G. W. 
Lamplugh, F.R.S., retiring from the office of President; to 
Dr. John Morison, F.G.S., retiring from the office of Vice- 
President ; and to Mr. H. Langford Lewis, B.A., Mr. Edward 
Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc., and Mr. A. J. Nicholson, retiring from 
the Council. 
Report of the Council for the Year 1910. 
The work of the Society during the year has resulted in the 
advance of our knowledge of local natural history in several 
directions, but the Council has to deplore a serious falling off in 
membership, for whereas only four new members have been 
elected, fifteen have been lost by death or resignation. The roll 
now comprises thirteen Honorary, seven Corresponding, thirty- 
six Life, and eighty-eight Ordinary members, a total of 144. 
Six Ordinary Meetings were held during the year, in addition 
to the Anniversary Meeting; of these three were held at Watford 
and three at St. Albans. The following papers and lectures 
were read or delivered 
Feb. 2.—The Colours of Animals; by Charles Oldham, F.Z.S., 
M.B.O.U. 
-- 8.—Holidays on a Fishing Cruiser round the Orkneys, Shetlands, 
and Faroes, with a Visit to a Whaling Station; by 
Arthur Earland. 
March 9.—Pages from the Life-history of the Mycetozoa ; by James 
Saunders, A.L.S. 
