XXXVlll PROCEEDINGS, 



to inaugurate the work of the winter session, and this new 

 feature in the proceedings was a marked success. 



The Society has lost, by death and resignation, only three 

 members during the year, and one corresponding member and 

 six ordinary members have been elected. The census at the end 

 of the years 1905 and 1906 was as follows : — 



1905. 190G. 



Honorary Members 13 13 



Corresponding Members 5 6 



Life Members 44 42 



Annual Subscribers 93 98 



155 159 



Seven Ordinary Meetings, as well as the Anniversary Meeting 

 and the conversazione, were held during the year, and the 

 following lectures and papers were read or delivered : — 



Jan. 9.— British Zoophytes ; by G. E. Bullen. 



Witches' Brooms ; by James Saunders, A.L.S. 



29.— Wild Nature's Ways ; by Richard Keartou, F.Z.S. 



Feb. 12.— Geological Photographs; by W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., 



F.G.S. 

 March G. — Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire in the year 



1905; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



C'oleoptera new to the Hertfordshire Fauna ; by G. E. EUiman 



and C. T. Gimmingham. 



Land and Freshwater Mollusca observed near St. Albans ; by 



G. E. Bullen. 



Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the year 1905 ; 



by William Bickerton. 



Albino Moles in Hertfordshire ; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. 



20.— Nature's Protection of Insect Life"; by F. Enock, F.L.S. 



26. — Anniversary Address : Inorganic Evolution; by the President, 



John Morison, M.D., D.P.H., F.G.S. 

 April 2. — On a Recent Palaeolithic Discovery near Rickmansworth ; by 

 Sir John Evans, K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., etc. 



The Weather of the year 1905 in Hertfordshire ; by John 



Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.R.Met.Soc, Assoc. Inst. C.E. 



Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertfordshire 



during the year 1904 ; by Edward Mawley, F. R.Met. Soc. 



Ostracoda and Mollusca from the Alluvial Deposits at the 



Watford Gas Works; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



Report on the Conference of Delegates to the British Associa- 



tion in London in 1905 ; by John Hopkinson. 

 Dec. 4.— Nature Study ; by Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S. 



A visit was paid to the Natural History Museiun, South 

 Kensington, on 28th April, and five field meetings were held 

 during the spring and summer, as follows : — 



May 5. — Aldbury, Tring. 

 May 26.— Ayot Green and Hatfield. 

 June 9. — Croxley, Rickmansworth. 

 June 16. — Rothanisted, Harpenden. 

 July 7. — Berkhamsted. 



The best thanks of the Society are due to Dr. Arthur Smith 

 Woodward, F.E.S., Keeper of Geology at the Natural History 

 Museum, to Mr. A. D. Hall, M.A., Director of the Rothanisted 

 Experimental Station, to the President and Mrs. Morison, at 



