HERTFORDSHIKE NATITRAL HISTORY SOCIETY. XI 



Okdix.vky Meeting, 24Tn November, 1881, at HERTFonn. 



IIenry Gilbertson, Esq., in the Chair. 



Lady Frances T?ushhy, AVonnloy Bury, irciddesdon ; jMiss Alico 

 Murray, Epcombs, Hertford ; aud the llov. Frederick Kudge, M.A., 

 Moesdeu llcctory, Buiitiugford, were proposed as Members of the 

 Society. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " :N'otes on the Flora of Hertfordshire." By R. T. Andrews. 



Mr. Andrews stated that Epipactis latifolia had been found ji;ro\ving in Bhick Fan 

 "Wood, Baylord, by the Rev. C. C. Thornton, on the lOth of Au,<,nist; that 

 Diaui/iii.i Aimeria had been seen growing- plentifully by the roadside near 

 Wadesmill, by his (Mr. Andrews') children ; and also that Vohjpodium calcariidii 

 had been gathered at one of the Field Jleetings of the Society, growing on the 

 wall at the farni-entrauce to Broxbouruebury, ■where it had apparently established 

 itself as an escape, with Scolopendrium vulgare and Asplenium adiantum-nigrum. 



He also drew a comparison between the state of flowering of plants in Hert- 

 fordshire aud Devonshire in October, showing, as would naturally be expected, 

 that vegetation was in a much more forward state in Devon than in Herts. 



2. " jS^otes on a Microscopical Aquarium." By Isaac Robinson. 

 [Transactions, Vol. II, p. 112.) 



3. " On Cklorodesmos hispida, a new Flagellate Animalcule." 

 By F. W. Phillips, F.L.S. {Transactions, Vol. II, p. 92.) 



The remainder of the meeting was devoted to the examination of 

 microscopic objects, of which the following may be mentioned : — 

 Anacharis alsinastru7n showing the circulation of sap, exhibited by 

 Mr. Gilbertson; "Collared Monads," by Mr. Robinson; Stentor 

 Millleri, by Mr. Phillips ; and Protococcus plmialis (resting-spores), 

 Palmella cruenta, and Bacteria, by Mr. Croft. 



Ordinary Meeting, 20th December, 1881, at "Watford. 



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



Lady Frances Bushby, Wormley Bury, Hoddesdon; Mr. William 

 Hill, jun.. The Maples, Hitchin ; Mr. R. M. C. James, Clarendon 

 Lodge, Watford ; Miss Alice Murray, Epcombs, Hertford ; Mr. 

 Francis Ransom, Fairfield, Hitchin ; the Rev. F. Rudge, M.A., 

 Meesden Rectory, Buntingford; and Mr. John Weall, Rutland 

 Lodge, Watford, were elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. Henry Wood, Woodside, Watford, and Mr. Thomas Hoade 

 Woods, Durrants, Watford, were proposed as Members. 



The following paper was read : — 



"Hertfordshire Deer-Parks." By James Edmund Harting, 

 F.L.S., F.Z.S. {Transactions, Vol. II, p. 97.) 



Mr. Sydney Humbert, referring to the disparked park at "Walker n, said that 

 he should think that it was originally a forest rather than a park, for both 

 "Walkern Bury farmhouse and "Walkera Park Farm were moated. "When the 



