Xl PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



On the way to the new gates opposite Hatfield Station, by 

 which the park was left, a visit was paid to the fine old oaks 

 described and portrayed in the Eev. Canon Gee's paper on 

 " Pamous Trees in Hertfordshire."* 



PiELD Meeting, 22nd July, 1880. 

 HERTFOED HEATH AND HAILEYBURY. 



This meeting having been arranged for the purpose of collecting 

 microscopic objects in the pools on Hertford Heath, these were 

 first diligently searched,! and then, passing along the Ermine 

 Street, an old Eoman road here of considerable width and 

 picturesquely fringed on either side with trees, the "orchis" or 

 "skipper" field was visited; but, as at the Ashridge meeting, 

 few orchids were found. 



Haileybury College was then visited, and here the members, 

 numbering over forty, were hospitably entertained at tea by the 

 Eev. Canon Bradby, Head Master of the College, and after visiting 

 the chapel and the principal rooms in the College, the party 

 dispersed, most of the members walking either to Hertford or Ware. 



Oedinaky Meeting, 26xh October, 1880, at St. Albans. 

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



Mr. Ernest 0. Eordham, Odsey, E-oyston ; Mr. John E. Legg, 

 B.A., Grammar School, Berkhampstead ; and Mr. Robert William 

 Mylne, F.R.S., E.S.A., F.G.S., Amwell, were proposed as Members 

 of the Society. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



"A Few Words on Tertiary Man." By John Evans, D.C.L., 

 LL.D., F.R.S., F.S.A., F.G.S. {Transactions, Vol. I, p. 145.) 



A discussion ensued in which Mr. A. W. Franks, F.R.S., Dr. A. 

 T. Brett, and the President, took part, and the thanks of the Society 

 were accorded to Mr. Evans. 



The meeting then resolved itself into a conversazione, at which 

 microscopic and other natural-history objects, fossils and antiquities 

 from the neighbourhood of St. Albans, and other interesting objects 

 were exhibited by Mr. B. Baker, Mrs. Blagg, Mr. J. Chappie, 

 Mayor of St. Albans, Mr. I. JST. Edwards, Mr. A. E. Ekins, the 

 Rev. H. Fowler, Mr. A. E. Gibbs, Mr. H. Gibson, the Rev. Dr. 

 Griffith, Mrs. Harry Hine, Mr. John Hopkiuson, Dr. Lipscomb, 

 Mrs. Masters, Mr. G. N. Marten, Mr. T. P. Marten, the Rev. C. 

 M. Perkins, Mr. Rhodes, and Miss Rose C. White. 



* * Trans. Watford Nat. Hist. Soc.,' Vol. II, pp. 7 and 11. 



t The followiuj^ species were obtained by one of the members, Mr. F. W. 

 Phillips, from the ponds on the heath •. — Carcliesium polypinum, Arcella aculeata, 

 A. vuhjaris, Actinophri/s Ehreiibergii, Vaginiciila decumbens, V. crystallina, 

 Dinobrion Sertalaria, Trnchelomonas caudala, Phacus lo)i(jicaiidus, Anthophyra 

 vegetans, and Mallomonas Plosslii. 



