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beauties of Knebworth are its noble park and extensive gardens. 

 The Italian garden, with its terraces, statues, and brilliant par- 

 terres ; the hedges of box and yew trimmed and twisted into 

 curious devices in the Dutch garden ; the quaint conceits of the 

 Chinese garden ; the Fernery with its cool and shady nooks and 

 paths leading to the winter garden; the Maze; the Rosary; and 

 last, though not least, the Horace garden — each has a peculiar 

 grace and charm of its own." "Forty years ago," he adds (he 

 wrote in 1877), "that portion of the grounds which is specially 

 dedicated to the memory of the Venusian bard, was a dismal 

 swamp ; now, it would be difficult even to imagine a more charming 

 spot." 



Other members visited the village, and had tea at one of the 

 lodges, rejoining the rest of the party at the station. 



Mr. James Saunders reports the finding in the park of the 

 Mycetozoa Stemonitis fusca and Phijsarum compressum ; and Mr. 

 A. E. Gibbs the capture of the butterfly. Parage megara, on the 

 Green between the station and the park, and of the moth, Coremia 

 desigtiata, on a wall in the gardens of Knebworth House. 



Field Meeting, 17th June, 1893. 

 ZOUCHES FARM, DUNSTABLE. 



From Dunstable (Church Street) Station, the members, con- 

 ducted by Mr. James Saunders, of Luton, ascended the Downs to 

 Zouches Farm. Starting from Bedfordshire, the boundary between 

 that county and Hertfordshire was passed at the foot of the hill, 

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



After a steep climb up the slippery turf, the summit of a knoll 

 was reached, whence an extensive view was obtained, the little 

 town of Dunstable, with its ancient Priory Church, situated near 

 the junction of the two Roman Roads — the Watling Street and 

 the Icknield Way — being just below ; while beyond was seen 

 Totternhoe Beacon, an outlying Lower Chalk hill of the Dunstable 

 Downs ; the Five Knolls and Kensworth Hill, forming portions of 

 the main range of the Downs on the Middle Chalk ; and an exten- 

 sive plain of Gault bounded by distant hills of Lower Greensand. 



On arriving at Zouches Farm the members dispersed for a time, 

 some to search for plants, others with their collecting-nets to 

 capture moths and other insects, and a few to hunt for those 

 strange organisms which lie on the border-line of the animal and 

 vegetable kingdoms, the Mycetozoa or Myxogastres. 



Mr. A. E. Gibbs reports having taken the light emerald moth, 

 Metrocampa margaritaria, in the wood near the farm ; that Herhula 

 cespitalis, a small moth, was flying in great numbers on the Downs; 

 and that a Tortrix, Xanthosetia hamana, was flying abundantly 

 amongst the corn. 



Re-assembling, tea was partaken of under the welcome shade 

 afPorded by some of the fine beech trees for which the Chiltem 

 Hills are famous, and then the members separated, some returning 



