XYl PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



butterflies and moths caught in the neighhourhood of Ware, ex- 

 hibited by Mr. F. W. Chuck ; butterflies, moths, and beetles 

 collected at High Cross, exhibited by Mr. S. M. Leake ; and fossils 

 from the Chalk, etc., exhibited by Mr. K. T. Andrews, Mr. S. M. 

 Leake, and Miss Middleton. 



There were also exhibited microscopic and other objects by Mr. 

 E. T. Ancbews, Mr. Barton, Mrs. Eland, Mr. H. 0. F. Butcher, 

 Mr. Joseph Chuck, Mr. R. B. Croft, Mrs. Ellis, Mr. Harrison, Miss 

 Hide, Mrs. Hudson, Mr. Joseph Hunt, Mr. J. C. Johnson, the Rev. 

 C. Lilley, Mr. H. Page, Mr. P. W. Phillips, Mr. George Price, 

 Mrs. Sheppard, Mr. H. Ward, Mr. Wickham, and Mrs. Woi-pell, 

 and two microscopes were lent by Messrs. R. and J. Beck. 



A short address, chiefly on the wonders of the microscope, and 

 with especial reference to the objects exhibited, was given by the 

 President, Dr. Gwyn Jeffreys, P.R.S. 



OEDmART Meeting, 20th Jantjart, 1880, at Watfoed. 

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



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

 John Lyon Foster, Millbrook House, Ware ; the Rev. Henry Wade 

 Hodgson, M.A., The Vicarage, King's Langley ; the Rev. Edward 

 Cumming Ince, M.A., Sunbury House, Watford; and Mr. Charles 

 H. Merritt, Trinity Yilla, Bengeo, Hertford, were elected Members 

 of the Society. 



Mrs. Bishop, The Piatt, Watford ; Miss Eliza Church, London 

 Road, St. Albans ; Mr. Henry Lewis, St. Peter's Street, St. 

 Albans ; Mr. C. T. Part, The Pre, St. Albans ; the Rev. Henry 

 Smith, M.A., Christ's Church, St. Albans; Miss Vicars, The Limes, 

 St. Albans ; Mr. S. Monkton White, Thorne House, St. Albans ; 

 and Mr. E. S. Wiles, London Road, St. Albans, were proposed as 

 Members. 



The following communications were read : — 



1. "On the Occurrence of Vertigo Moulinsiana, Dupuy, in Hert- 

 fordshire." By Henry Groves. Communicated by the President. 

 {Transactions, Vol. I, p. 81.) 



The President said that lists of the Mollusca of many counties in England had 

 been published, and he thought that Hertfordshire ought not to be left in the 

 background, for it was peculiarly suited to their habitability in the diversified 

 nature of its hills and valleys, woods and waters. The animal or soft parts of 

 Vertigo Moulinsiana had, he said, been described by him in the ' Annals of 

 Natm-al History ' for November, 1878, and its discovery by Mr. Groves in Hants 

 and Herts was then noticed. He mentioned another rare Hertfordshire moUusk, 

 a species of Succinea, of which he had found a single specimen at St. Albans, on 

 the bank of the river Ver, near the Great Northern Railway Station. This form 

 he had publislied in his ' British Conchology ' as a variety of IS. pntris, but sub- 

 sequent investigation had induced him to consider it a chstiuct species. This 

 Succinea he described as extremely thin and finely striated lengthwise, the spire 

 very small, the last whorl disproportionately large, and the mouth more open and 

 expanded than in any other Eui-opeau species. He recommended any members of 



