XXll PEOCEEDINGS, 



April 23. Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire during the year 

 1894 ; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



The Blastopore of the Frog's Egg in Relation to the Hypoblast ; 



by J. B. Russell, B. Sc. 



Nov. 19. Parasitic Fungi : their Modes of Attack, and the Means of 

 Prevention ; by George Massee, F.L.S., F.R.M.S. 



Dec. 12. Report on the Conferences of Delegates to the British Associa- 

 tion at Ipswich in 1895 ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S. 



The following lectures were delivered at St. Albans : — 



March 22. Extinct Monsters; by the Rev. Henry N. Hutchinson, B.A., 



F.G.S. 

 Oct. 23. Charles Darwin : his Life and Work ; by H. W. S. "Worsley- 



Benison, F.L.S. 



The following Field Meetings were held during the year : — 



May 11. — Tewin, Marden Hill, and Panshanger. 



June 8.— Berkhanisted, Great Gaddesden, and Nettleden. 



15. — Chiltern Green and Luton Hoo Park. 



22. — Dunstable and Totternhoe. 



Oct. 19.— The Grove Park and Woods, Watford. 



A visit was also made to the British Museum (Natural History) 

 on the 27th of April, when Mr. Arthur Stradling gave a demon- 

 stration in the Osteological Gallery on " Skulls and Skeletons." 



The thanks of the Society are due to the Earl of Limerick for 

 permission to visit his private grounds at Tewin Water, and for 

 hospitality kindly afforded to the members ; to Monsieur De Falbe 

 for allowing Luton Hoo Park to be visited ; to the Earl of Clarendon 

 for his permission for the annual fungus foray to be held in Grove 

 Park and the adjoining woods ; and also to Sir John Evans for 

 delivering the anniversary address in the absence of the President. 



Pour parts of the eighth volume of the present series of the 

 Society's ' Transactions,' containing 136 pages and four plates, 

 have been published, and the volume will be completed in three 

 more parts, one of which has already been printed and will be 

 issued in a few days. 



The financial position of the Society is satisfactory, the income 

 and expenditure being about the same. While it is due to the 

 members to spend the whole of their subscriptions for their benefit, 

 there are other sources of income, and in view of the fact that out 

 of the £255 received from the present life members only £130 are 

 invested, it would be advisable to spend no more than the annual 

 subscriptions, and to invest all other receipts until the Society's 

 indebtedness to the life members is covered by its invested funds. 

 And this could well be done without ciirtailing the expenditure if 

 all the members paid their subscriptions within the year for which 

 they are dae, or if the number of annual subscribers were con- 

 siderably increased. 



Near the end of the year the Society had notice from the 

 Governors of the Watford Endowed Schools to remove its Library. 

 Your Secretary at once endeavoured to find suitable quarters else- 

 where in Watford, but without success, and the Council then 



