HERTFORDSniRE NATTJEAL HISTORY SOCIETY. XXI 



Four of these meetings were liold in conjunction with other 

 societies. The second, in the neighbourhood of' AVatford, took 

 place in conjunction with the Geologists' Association, and was the 

 most numerously attended of all ; at the third, at llickmansworth 

 Common ^loor, which, owing to the very wet weather, was the 

 least numerously attended, members of the Quekett Microscopical 

 Club were present ; the fifth, the annual whole-day meeting, held 

 in the neighbourhood of Welwyn, was attended by members of the 

 Luton Natural History Society ; and the sixth was held in the 

 neighbourhood of Luton, by invitation from that Society. 



Lor hospitality kindly ait'orded at the Field Meetings the Society 

 is indebted to Mr. Arnold, Kedboum Bury ; Mr. Wilshere, The 

 Fryth, "Welwyn ; and Alderman Cumberland, Luton. The thanks 

 of the Society are also due to Mr. AY. "NVhitaker, of the Geological 

 Survey of England, for his demonstrations on the geology of Watford 

 at the second Field Meeting, and to Dr. J. H. Gilbert for his 

 explanations of the cxpeiiments carried on at the Rothamsted 

 experimental farm, and at the " Lawes Testimonial Laboratory " at 

 Harpenden. 



All these meetings, except the last, which was conducted by the 

 Secretary of the Luton ]S^atural History Society, were planned and 

 arranged by your Secretary, who desires to take this opportunity of 

 asking other members of the Society to suggest localities to be 

 visited at future Field Meetings, and afterwards to write and 

 forward to him reports of them for the ' Proceedings.' 



The donations to the Society's Library have quite equalled the 

 average of former years. They consist, as usual, principally of 

 the publications of societies, and of other periodical publications, 

 received in exchange. The list of the latter now comprises 

 'Science Gossip,' the 'Naturalist,' the 'Midland Naturalist,' the 

 ' Scottish Naturalist,' Symons' ' Monthly Meteorological Magazine ' 

 and 'British Rainfall,' ' Grevillea,' and the 'Journal of Concho- 

 logy,' the two last-named having been added during the year. The 

 Society continues to subscribe to the ' Geological Record,' the 

 'Journal of Botany,' the ' Entomologist,' and the 'Zoologist,' and 

 to the publications of the Ray Society. 



An additional vote for books, to the amount of £6, has this year 

 been made by the Council, and with it fifty-seven volumes of works 

 on various branches of Natural History have been purchased. 

 Forty-five volumes have been bound during the year, and about 

 thirty more are now ready for binding. Owing to these consider- 

 able accessions another book-case is required, and it is hoped that, 

 by the courtesy of the Public Library Committee, it will shortly be 

 provided. 



A microscopic object cabinet has been purchased for Hertford and 

 now contains thirty slides — twelve presented by Mr. R. T. Andrews 

 twelve by Mrs. Croft, and six by Mr. F. W. Phillips. The cabinet 

 is under the care of Mr. Phillips, by whom donations will be gladly 

 received and acknowledged. To the cabinet at Watford seven slides 

 of rock-sections have been presented by Mr. J. Vincent Elsden. 



