WATFORD NATUEAIi HISTORY SOCIETr. XV 



2. " Notes on a Proposed Re-issue of the Flora of Hertfordshire, 

 with Supplementary Remarks on the Botany of the Watford 

 District." By R. A. Pryor, B.A., F.L.S. ( Vide p. 17). 



3. "On the Botanical Geography of Hertfordshire." By Arthur 

 Cottam, F.R.A.S. 



Mr. Cottam stated that the ' Flora Hertfordiensis ' was now very much out 

 of date. It was published in 1849, and had two appendices — one dated 1851, 

 and the other 1859. The boundary lines on the map, dividing the county into 

 districts for botanical purposes, were to a great extent artificial, rendering it 

 impossible to make them out on the ground. On a large map he showed where 

 the natural lines of di\-ision should be, forming the districts from the drainage 

 areas of the diiferent rivers and their tributaries. 



4. "!N'otes on the Flora of the Watford District." By Arthur 

 Cottam, F.R.A.S. {Vide^. 14). 



The Secretary then read extracts from letters he had received, 

 as follows: — (1) from Mr. William A. Tooke, Pinner Hill, offer- 

 ing to render assistance to Members of the Society desirous of 

 examining the flora of the district, as far as his property extends ; 



(2) from Mr. H. George Fordham, Odsey, near Royston, saying 

 that if at any time an excursion should be made to that neigh- 

 bourhood — to the coprolite pits or other places of interest — he 

 would do what he could to further the objects of the Society ; 



(3) from Mr. John E. Ingpen, Honorary Secretary of the Quekett 

 Microscopical Club, London, inviting the Members of the Society 

 to join in any of the Excursions of the Club ; and (4) from Mr. 

 Henry Walker, Honorary Secretary of the West London Scientific 

 Association and Field Club, to the same effect as the preceding. 



A Collection of Mosses was exhibited by Dr. Brett ; collections 

 of Hertfordshire Plants, by Mr. Cottam and Mr. W. L. Smith ; and 

 spore-cases of Ferns, under the microscope, by Mr. J. Hopkinson. 



Field Meeting, 1st Mat, 1875. 



Rain was falling heavily, when a train arrived at Watford, 

 conveying about five-and-twenty members of the Geologists' 

 Association, who, in spite of the prospect of a thoroughly wet 

 afternoon, had left London to join in the first Field Meeting of 

 the Watford Natural History Society. The President, the Secre- 

 tary, and several other members received them ; and as there 

 seemed no prospect of anything but a thoroughly wet afternoon — 

 for it had been raining continuously most of the day — the pro- 

 gramme which had been announced was abandoned, and the 

 members of the two Societies assembled at the residence of the 

 Secretary — Holly Bank — where Professor Morris had kindly con- 

 sented to give a lecture on what would have been seen had the day 

 been fine. 



Soon, however, the rain almost ceased, and it was decided to 

 visit a chalk-pit in Berry Wood, near Aldenham, as being the 

 nearest spot known where an instructive geological section could 

 be seen. 



