XIV PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



After some remarks by Mr. Henry Gilbertson, who advocated 

 fern-spores being sown in moist places in the roads and lanes of 

 Hertfordshire, the Chairman announced that a microscopic-object 

 cabinet, similar to the Society's cabinet at Watford, had been 

 purchased for Hertford, and would be kept at the rooms of the 

 Literary and Scientific Institution, where it would be at all times 

 open to the inspection of the members. 



The meeting then resolved itself into a conversazione, and the 

 remainder of the evening was devoted to the study of microscopic 

 objects, and the comparison, with the usual test-objects, of the 

 highest powers of the various microscopes in the room. 



Oedtnaey Meeting, 18th Novembee, 1879, at Watfoed. 

 Alfred T. Brett, Esq., M.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Alfred Powell Buxton, Easncye Park, Ware ; Mr. Thomas 

 Fowell Buxton, Easneye Park, Ware ; Miss Emily Camp, 167, High 

 Street, Watford ; Mr. Alfred Chapman, Poles, Ware ; the Rev. Henry 

 Hallet Coddington, M.A., High Cross Yicarage, Ware ; Dr. George 

 Elin, Leahoe, Hertford ; Mr. Charles E. Longmore, Hertford ; the 

 Most :N"oble the Marquis of Salisbury, K.G., F.B.S., Hatfield 

 House ; Colonel Smyth, The Grange, Welwyn ; the Eev. W. 

 Yalden Thomson, St. Andrew's Parsonage, Watford ; the Right 

 Honourable the Earl of Verulam, Gorhambury, St. Albans ; and 

 Miss Rose C. White, Maisonette, St. Albans, were elected Members 

 of the Society. 



• Sir Edmund Beckett, Bart., Q.C., Batch Wood, St. Albans; the 

 Rev. Henry Wade Hodgson, M.A., The Vicarage, King's Langley ; 

 and the Rev. Edward Gumming Ince, M.A., Sunbury House, 

 Watford, were proposed as Members. 



The following paper was read : — 



''Our British Beetles: Notes on their Classification and Col- 

 lection." By Arthur Cottam, E.R.A.S. {Transactions, Vol. I, 

 p. 25.) 



Remarks were made by the Chairman, Mr. Sydney Humbert, and 

 Mr. W. L. Smith. In I'eplying Mr. Cottam said that he could not 

 find that the Entomology of Hertfordshire had been worked out at 

 all. There was a great need of workers, and he wished that any 

 one finding insects would send them to him, so that they might be 

 recorded. 



Oedinaet Meeting, 2nd December, 1879, at Heetford. 

 J. GwYN Jeffreys, Esq., LL.D., F.R.S., etc.. President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. Lyon Poster, Millbrook House, Ware, and Mr. Charles 

 H. Merritt, Trinity Villa, Bengeo, were proposed as Members of the 

 Society. 



