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INDEX. 



Birds, destruction of, xii ; use in keep- 

 ing down insects, 3 ; migration of, 



25 ; observed in i88i, 83 ; in 1882, 



209; of Rib valley, 136; of Ash 



valley, 140. 

 Bishop's Stortfprd, gale of Oct. 1881 



at, 18, 24; river Ash near, 138; 



Eocene strata at, 147 ; London clay 



at, 151. 

 Blakesware, river Ash at, 139. 

 Bleak in the Lea, 13. 

 Blue-pebble-and-clay in Herts, 151. 

 Botany, notes on, 237. 

 Boulder clay in Herts, 152. 

 Bourne valley, Iv ; river, 237- 

 Bournes draining into the Ash, 137, 



138, 140. 

 Braithvpaite, Dr. R., list of mosses by, 



Ixviii. 

 Bramfield, peregrine falcon seen at, 



211. 

 Braughing, rivers Rib and Qiiin at, 



126. 

 Bream and bream-flat ia the Lea, 12. 

 Brent Pelham, bourne near, 137. 

 Brett, Dr. A. T. : On some of the 



Effects of the Recent Storm in 



Herts, X ; Notes on the Earth-worm, 



xxiv, 143 ; Notes on some Herts 



Mammalia, liv. 

 Bricket Wood visited, Ixi ; whirlwind 



at, 95. 

 Brick-making in Herts, 160. 

 British (Natural History) Museum 



visited, xl. 

 Brocket Hall, rainfall at, in 1881, 67 ; 



in 1882, 251 ; tree-sparrow seen 



near 209. 

 Brocket Hall Park, 109. 

 Brown, I., donation of, xlvii, 1. 

 Broxbom-ne, otters near, 11 ; gale of 



Oct. 1881 at, 22; puffin at, 213; 



river Lea at, 245. 

 Buckland, Frank, reminiscences of, 



179. 

 Buffon, a French naturalist, 176. 

 Bunting rustic, in Herts, 210. 

 Buntingford, gale of Oct. iSSi at, 23; 



rainfall at, in 1881, 67; in 1882, 



251 ; river Rib at, 126. 

 Bushey, stifE clay at, 151 ; swallow- 

 holes at, 155. 

 Bushey Heath, rainfall at, in 1881, 67; 



in 1882, 251. 

 Bushey Station, rainfall at, in 1881, 



67 ; in 1882, 251. 

 Butterflies, a cloud of, 96. 

 Buzzard, honey, in Herts, 83. 

 Bye-meetings, reports of, 1882, xxiii, 



xxiv, xxxviii; 1883, xli. 



C 



Cadwell, Totternhoe-stone at, 159. 



Caldicott, Gault clay near, 153. 



Campbell, F. M. : Methods by which 

 Members can assist the Recorder of 

 the Arachnida, xxiv, 141-142 ; The 

 Colour of Animals in Relation to 

 their Habits, xxxLx-xli ; The Spiders 

 of the Neighboui-hood of Hoddesdon, 

 Ixi, 263-276. 



Cardaniine pratensis, metamorphosis in, 

 XXV, 239. 



Carp in the Lea, 12. 



Carp-bream in the Lea, 12. 



Cassiobury Park, 101 ; visited, xxxv ; 

 gale of Oct. 1881 in, 20; cuckoo 

 laying in swallow's nest in, 96. 



Carthagena Weir, river Lea at, 245. 



Chad well, earth-works near, 243 ; 

 springs at, 244, 248. 



Chadwell Hill visited, Ixiv. 



Chalk of Lea vaUey, xxv ; of Royston, 

 xxxi; of Herts, 147, 151, 153, 156 ; 

 composition of, 152; water-supply 

 from, 157. 



Chalk-pits near Harefield, xxvii, 

 xxviii ; near Royston, xxxiii ; at 

 Reed, xxxiii ; near Thundermarsh, 

 135. 



Chalky boulder-clay in Herts, 155, 161. 



Chemistry of sap, 229. 



Cheshimt, gale of Oct. 18S1 at, 22. 



Cheshunt Park, 105. 



Cheston Park, 105. 



Chipping, river Rib at, 126. 



Chlorodesmos Jnspida (Phillips), gen. 

 et sp. nov., 92. 



Chub in the Lea, 13. 



Clapgate, bourne at, 1 37. 



Clay-with-flints in Herts, 152, 156. 



Climate of Herts, 147. 



Cole Green Park, 106. 



Coles Park, gale of Oct. 1S81 at, 23 ; 

 river Rib at, 126. 



Colin, Virginian, in Herts, 211. 



Colour of animals, xxxix. 



Compleat Angler of Izaak Walton, 9 ; 

 mimerous editions of, 16. 



Cooke, Dr. M. C, lists of fungi by, 

 xxxv, Ixvii. 



CoproLite-beds of Herts, 159. 



Cordeaux, J., on migration of birds, 

 27, 33, 38 ; on the common curlew, 

 212; common tern, 212; little tern, 

 213 ; little auk, 213 ; puffin, 213. 



Cormorant in Herts, 213. 



Corneybury, river Rib at, 126. 



Corn -growing districts of Herts, 147. 



Cottered, drainage from, 243. 



