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moat was dredged some years ago, large quantities of deers' antlers were found in 

 it, and they would, lie thought, afford some evidence that there was an extensive 

 deer-park or deer-forest there at one time. 



Mr. Littleboy remarked that for several years in Ashridge Park the red-deer 

 and fallow-deer had been allowed to mix freely. 



Dr. Brett said that he had been told by an old park-keeper that when he first 

 went to Cassiobury in 1815 there were between 700 and 800 deer there. The 

 number was now kept down to about half. Three years ago, as well as in the 

 present year, a large number. had been lost by disease. 



Professor Attfield referred to the large number of deer-parks in the neighbour- 

 hood of Watford — Moor Park, Rickmansworth, Cassiobury, The Grove, Ashridge, 

 Gorhambury, and Hatfield being within a walking-distance or a short ride by 

 rail. There was probably no other Society so interested in deer-parks as the 

 Hertfordshire. 



Mr. Harting replied that there was no doubt the red-deer and the fallow-deer 

 did agree, notwithstanding the assertion by Gervase Markham. He believed that 

 the disease in the deer at Cassiobury was caused by a liver-fluke analogous to 

 that in sheep. In both deer and sheep the licking of soda had been found to be 

 a remedy. 



Mr. Sydney Humbert then read some notes on the destruction of 

 wild birds, advocating that the Society should take steps to enforce 

 the observance of the " "Wild Birds Preservation Act " in the county. 



Ordinaet Meeting, 22in) Decembeh, 1881, at Hertford. 

 C. E. Shelly, Esq., B.A., M.B., in the Chair. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "The Gale of the 14th of October, 1881, and its Effects in 

 Hertfordshire." By the Rev. C. W. Harvey, M.A., P.M.S. 

 {Transactions, Vol. II, p. 17.) 



2. " Izaak Walton and the Eiver Lea." By R. B. Croft, R.N"., 

 F.L.S. {Transactions, Yol. II, p. 9.) 



Ordinary Meeting, 24th Jantjaey, 1882, at St. Albans. 



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



The following paper was read : — 



" The Migration of Birds." By John E. Littleboy, {Transactions, 

 Vol. II, p. 25.) 



Mr. Frederick Littleboy and Mr. John "Weall were appointed 

 Auditors of the accounts for 1881. 



Obdinaet Meeting, 26th January, 1882, at Hertford. 



R. B. Croft, Esq., R.N., F.L.S. , F.R.M.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. "William Stanforth Harrison, Fore Street, Hertford, was 

 proposed as a Member of the Society. 



