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not lie intended to please man alone, but afforded pleasure to the animals themselves ; 

 and he expressed the hope that some of his hearers might be induced from wYiat 

 he had said to take a deeper interest in the ditt'ereut forms of life by which t\icy 

 were surrounded. 



Ordixaet Meetistg, 16xn Jaxuary, 1883, at TVatfokd. 

 George Roofer, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



"Kv. Jolin Callaway, Norris Lodge, Hoddesdou ; the Honourable 

 Colonel Capoll, Lady'^s Close, \Yatford; Mr.Cluiiies Edward Holford, 

 Spriu<;iicld, Ware ; Mr. Frederick George Lloyd, Cranleigli Villas, 

 Watford ; Mr. Richard Lydekker, B.A., F.G.S., F.Z.S., The Lodge, 

 Harpenden; Mr. John Macdonald, The Hall, Bushey, Watford; 

 Mr. George Mowat, Holywell Hill, St. Albans; Mr. Henry S. 

 iSherry, Dynmore, Watford; Mr. Arthur Stradling, C.M.Z.S., 20, 

 Wootlf ord Road, Watford ; and Miss Woodley, Ware Road, Hertford, 

 ■were elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. A. F. Griffith, Bloomfield Road, Highgate, London, N. ; the 

 Rev. Francis H. Hodgson, M.A., The Vicarage, Abbot's Langley ; 

 and Sir Charles Mcholson, Bart., D.C.L., F.G.S., The Grange, 

 Totteridge, were proposed as Members. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



"Windsor Forest and its Famous Trees." By the Rev. Canon 

 Gee, D.D., Vicar of Windsor. {Transactions, Vol. II, p. 189.) 



Mr. Allan Barraud and Mr. John WeaU were elected Auditors of 

 the accounts for 1882. 



Bye MEETrjfG, 23ed Januaey, 1883, at St. Albaxs. 

 This meeting was devoted to the exhibition of microscopic objects. 



Oedixaey Meeting, 15th Febeuaey, 1883, at Heetfoed. 



F. M. Campbell, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Arthur Ernest Ekins, Market Cross, St. Albans, and Mr. 

 Frederick Seebohm, The Hermitage, Hitchiu, were proposed as 

 Members of the Society. 



The following paper was read : — 



" On Methods of Illustrating Lectures on Microscopic Objects." 

 By F. W. Phillips, F.L.S. 



Mr. Phillips said that there might be many a member of the Society who could 

 converse freely upon some branch of Natural History with those who knew 

 something about it, and yet was extremely diffident of communicatuig it in public ; 

 and he believed this was almost always due to a fear of wearjing the audience 

 through inability to make the subject interesting to them. It the member had 

 discovered a rare auimal or plant, it was possible to exhibit it and point out its 

 various distinguishing characteristics ; but by far the greater number of subjects 

 of study were those which could not well be exhibited. The department of the 

 Infusoria might be especially instanced, owing to the uncertainty of the appear- 

 ance, duration, and caprice of these creatures ; and if one could not show the 

 object, how would it be possible to describe a creature which had its eyes in its 

 neck, its jaws in its stomach, which could tuck its head in its stomach, aud turn 



