SESSION 1892-93. xlv 



Glenroy, "Watford ; anti Miss Swindon, The Hollies, St. Albans 

 Road, Watford, were proposed for membership. 

 The foUowiuii: papers were read : — 



1. "The Climate of Watford, deduced from Meteorological 

 Observations taken during the ten years 1877-1886." Bv John 

 Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. {Transactions, Vol. VII, 



2. "A Preliminary Introduction to the Investigation of Micro- 

 scopic Leaf-Fungi." By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., etc. 



3. " Xotes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire." By A. 

 E. Gibbs, F.L.S. {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 187.) 



The following papers were taken as read : — 



1. "Meteorological Observations taken at The Grange, St. 

 Albans, during the year 1892." Bv John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc. {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 175.) 



2. " Climatological Observations taken in Hertfordshire in the 

 year 1892." By John Hopkinson. {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 199.) 



3. "Report on the Rainfall in Hertfordshire in 1892." By 

 John Hopkinson. {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 203.) 



4. "Observations of Temperature and Rainfall taken at Throcking 

 Rectory, Buutingford, 1880-1889." By the Rev. C. Wigan Harvey, 

 M.A. {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 213.) 



5. "Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertford- 

 shire during the year 1892." Bv Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc, 

 F.R.H.S. {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 182.) 



6. "A List of Hertfordshire Hepatic£e." By A. E. Gibbs, 

 F.L.S. {Transactions, Vol. VII, p. 233.) 



Field Meeting, 29th Apeil, 1893. 

 EICKMANSWORTH AND HAREFIELD. 



The Harefield Chalk -pits, to visit which was the principal object 

 of this meeting, are in Middlesex, but just on the Hertfordshire 

 border, and the greater part of the walk was in our own county. 

 The Directors, Mr. Upheld Green and Mr. John Hopkinson, went 

 over the ground in the morning, and met the party, twelve in 

 number, at Rickmansworth Station in the afternoon. 



The route taken was on the towing-path of the canal ; past 

 Mr. George W^ebster's pumping- station at Springwell, where water 

 from the Chalk is being converted into mineral-water to send away 

 to London, instead of being conveyed there in pipes or conduits 

 as aqua pura, as he intends to do eventually ; and, leaving the 

 canal, to the first of the large chalk-pits cut in the face of the hill, 

 near Cribbs, and thence to the second of these pits, a much larger 

 one, near the old " Copper Mill." A fine section of the Upper 

 Chalk is exposed in these pits, and several " pipes " were seen. 

 Fossils are not numerous, but a few were found, including Echino- 

 derms, Inocerami, and Terebratulse. 



The first pit is an old station for the moss Seligeria calcarea, 



