session 1901-1902. 
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William Marriott, F.R. Met. Soc., Assistant Secretary of the 
Royal Meteorological Society, “ Ben Nevis,” Thornlaw Road, West 
Norwood, was elected a Corresponding Member of the Society. 
The President delivered an address entitled “ Progress daring 
the Nineteenth Century.” ( Transactions , Yol. XT, pp. 105-118.) 
The following gentlemen were duly elected as the Officers and 
Council for the ensuing year :— 
President. —Lewis Evans, E.S.A., P.R.A.S. 
Vice-Presidents. —Professor 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.; Sir John 
Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., Sc.D., E.R.S., Y.P.S.A., etc.; the 
Right Honourable the Earl of Yerulam. 
Treasurer. —John Weall. 
Honorary Secretaries. —A. E. Gibbs, E.L.S., F.R.H.S.; T. E. 
Lones, M.A., LL.D., B.Sc. 
j Editor. —John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., F.R. Met. 
Soc., Assoc. Inst. C. E. 
Librarian. —Daniel Hill, F.R.H.S. 
Other Members. —William Bickerton; E. T. Burr ; W. R. Carter, 
B.A.; Arthur E. Ekins, F.C.S., F.I.C.; W. Gruggen, L.R.C.P.E ; 
George P. Neele; A. Lestock Reid, M.D. ; James K. Riggall; 
George Rooper, F.Z.S.; W. Lepard Smith; William Whitaker, 
B.A., F.R.S., F.G.S., Assoc. Inst. C.E. ; E. T. Wilks, F.R.G.S. 
The thanks of the Society were accorded to Mr. William 
Whitaker, F.R.S., retiring from the office of Yice-President; and 
to Mr. E. M. Chater, Mr. Alfred E. Cox, M.R.C.S., Mr. F. W. 
Silvester, and Mr. G. H. Wailes, retiring from the Council. 
Report of the Council for the Year 1901. 
The Council of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society, in 
presenting the 27th Annual Report, regrets to announce that there 
has again been a falling-off in the number of members. During 
the year seven ordinary members have been elected; fourteen 
members have resigned; and the Council regrets to have to 
record the loss by death of one Honorary Member, Miss Eleanor 
A. Ormerod, LL.D., F.R. Met. Soc., F.E.S., and one Ordinary 
Member, Sir Joseph Henry Gilbert, Ph.D., LL.D., F.R.S., etc. 
Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod was the youngest daughter of George 
Ormerod, the well-known author of the ‘History of Cheshire,’ and 
was born on 11th May, 1828. For many years she was a Fellow 
of the Royal Meteorological Society and of the Entomological 
Society, and in the year 1900 the honorary degree of LL.D. was 
conferred upon her by the University of Edinburgh. Miss 
Ormerod was an entomologist of much repute, and devoted most 
of her time to the investigation of insects which are in a special 
degree injurious to crops. The results of her work, chiefly to 
be found in her twenty-four ‘ Annual Reports of Observations 
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