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SO much time had been expended in listening to his discourses on 

 the -wonderful adaptations of means to ends in the works of the 

 Creator that there was no time to spare to botanise on the Common 

 or to search its pools for their microscopic inhabitants. 



The two societies here therefore separated, the members of the 

 Quekett Club returning to London by way of Stanmore, and the 

 members of the Watford Society dispersing in various directions. 



Okdinaey Meetin;g, 12th Octobee, 1876. 

 Alfred T. Brett, Esq., M.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mrs. Arnold, Redbourne Bury, St. Albans ; Dr. William Henry 

 Eobson, Berkhampstead ; Mr. George Lambert, F.S.A., Coventry 

 Street, Haymarket, London ; Mr. Oliver Lemon, Langley Hill 

 House, East Langley; Dr. Charles Edward Saunders, 21, Lower 

 Seymour Street, London ; and Mrs. George Tidcombe, Chalk Hill, 

 Bushey, Avere elected Members of the Society, 



A letter was read from Dr. F. Y. Hayden, thanking the Society 

 for his election as an Honorary Member. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



"The Polarisation of Light." By James TJ. Harford ( Vide p. 152). 

 The lecture was illustrated by a series of diagrams, and by 

 various experiments with polarising apparatus-.* 



Oedinart Meeting, 9th J^ovembeb., 1876. 

 John Evans, Esq., F.R.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 

 Mr. Eobert Marcus Carew, Carpenders Pai'k, Watford, was 

 elected a Member of the Society. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "The Hertfordshire Ordnance Bench Marks, fi-om the 'Ab- 

 stracts of Levelling' of the Ordnance Survey." By John Hopkinson, 

 Hon. Sec. {Vide ^. 141). 



2. "On some Boulders in the ^Neighbourhood of Buntingford, 

 Herts." By Robert Philips Greg, F.G.S. ( Vide p. 172). 



3. "On the Earth Pyramids near Botzen in the Tyrol." By 

 the President, John Evans, E.R.S., etc. 



Mr. Evans stated that these ppamids, of which he exhibited a photograph, 

 ■were in a valley in the neighboui-hood of Klobenstein, a few miles from Botzen, 

 and at an elevation of 3000 feet above the sea-level. They had been already 

 described by Sir Charles Lyell in his ' Principles of Geology,' and by other 

 authors ; but as they were such striking instances of the effects of sub-aerial 

 denudation, he thought that a few words about them might not be unacceptable 

 to the Society. 



The pvramids, as might be seen from the photograph, were obelisks of soil 

 thickly clustered together, some of them fifty or sixty feet high, and by far the 



* The subject was brought before the Society by Mr. Harford for the second 

 time by special request, on account of the small attendance owing to the great 

 storm on the first occasion (13th April). 



