session 1900-1901. 
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26th Anniversary Meeting, 26th March, 1901. 
(At Watford.) 
Alan E. Crossman, E.L.S., E.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Yice-President, 
in the Chair. 
The Report of the Council for the year 1900, and the Treasurer’s 
Account of Income and Expenditure, were read and adopted. 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year :— 
President. —Lewis Evans, E.S.A., E.R.A.S. 
Vice-Presidents —Prof. John Attfield, M.A., Ph.D., E.R.S., 
E.I.C.; Alan E. Crossman, E.L.S., E.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; the Right 
Honourable the Earl of Yerulam; William Whitaker, B.A., E.R.S., 
E.G.S., Assoc'. Inst. C. E. 
Treasurer. —John Weall. 
Honorary Secretaries. —A. E. Gibbs, E.L.S., E.R.H.S.; T. E. 
Tones, M.A., LL.D., B.Sc. 
Editor. —John Hopkinson, E.L.S., E.G.S., E.R.M.S., E.R. Met. 
Soc., Assoc. Inst. C. E. 
Librarian. —Daniel Hill, E.R.H.S. 
Other Members. —W. R. Carter, B.A.; Edward M. Chater; 
Alfred E. Cox, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. ; Arthur E. Ekins, F.C.8., 
E.I.C,; Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., E.R.S., 
Y.P S.A., etc.; W. Gruggen, L.R.C.P.E. ; George P. Heele; 
James K. Riggall; George Rooper, E.Z.S. ; E. W. Silvester; 
G. H. Wailes, Assoc. M. Inst. C.E.; E. T. Wilks, E.R.G.S. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to the Right Honourable 
the Earl of Yerulam, retiring from the office of President; to Sir 
John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S., retiring from the office of Yice- 
President ; to Mr. W. R. Carter, B.A., retiring from the office of 
Honorary Secretary ; and to Dr. John Morison, E.G.S., Mr. James 
Saunders, A.L.S., and Mr. W. Lepard Smith, retiring from the 
Council. 
Report of the Council for the Year 1900. 
The Society has now completed its 26th year, and the Council 
has the pleasure to report that the year 1900 has seen considerable 
interest taken by the members in its proceedings, both in the 
winter evening meetings and in the summer field meetings. 
During the year the Society has elected as an Honorary Member 
Thomas McKenny Hughes, M.A., E.R.S., E.S.A., E.G.S., Professor 
of Geology in the University of Cambridge, and eight ordinary 
members ; the names of twenty-five ordinary members have been 
removed from the list, either by their resignation or for non-payment 
of subscription for several years; and the Council has to record 
the loss of five others by death, including one Honorary Member, 
