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HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 



AND FIELD CLUB. 



The objects of the Society are: — 1. The investigation of the Meteorology, 

 Geology, Botany, Zoology, and Pre-historic ArchiBology of the County of Hertford. 



2. The publication of the results of such investigation made by its Members. 



3. The dissemination amongst its Membei's of information on Natural History 

 and Microscopical Science. 4. The formation of a Library of works on Natural 

 History, and of a Museum illustrative of the Geology, Botany, and Zoology of 

 the County (the Vertebrata excepted). 5. The discouragement of the practice 

 of removing rare plants from the localities of which they are characteristic, and 

 of exterminating rare birds, fish, and other animals. 



The head-quarters of the Society are at the Watford Public Library, where 

 Evening Meetings are held during the winter on the Third Tuesday in each 

 month. Evening meetings are also held at St. Albans, Hertford, Ware, and 

 other places; and during the summer months Field Meetings are held in 

 various parts of the County. 



The Transactions of the Society, which have already contributed materially to 

 the knowledge of the Natural History of the County, are published in parts, each 

 containing from 32 to 48 pages, at intervals of about three mouths, and are issued 

 free to Members. 



Members pay an Entrance Fee of 10«., and an Annual Subscription of 10s., 

 for which they may compound by a payment of £5. Ladies are eligible for 

 election. 



Donations to the Library, and letters relating thereto, should be addressed to 

 the Librarian, E. M. ('hater, 129, High Street, Watford ; and to the Museum, 

 to the Ciu-ator, F. W. Silvester, F.M.S., Hedges, St. Albans. Subscriptions, etc., 

 are payable to the Treasm-er, Sydney Humbert, Watford. 



All other communications relating to the Society should be addressed to John 

 Hopkinson, F.L.S., Wansford House, Watford, or to R. B. Croft, E.N.,F.L.S., 

 Fanhams Hall, Ware, the Honorary Secretaries. 



PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



Transactions of the Watford Natural History Society. 



Vol. I. 1875-78. (312 pages). Price 10s. %d. 

 In Parts: — 1-6, and 8-10, Is. each; 7, Is. ^d. 



Vol. II. 1878-80. (320 pages). Price 10s. M. 

 In Parts : — 1, 2, 4, 5, and 6, Is. M. each ; 3, 7, and 8, Is. each. 



Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. 



Vol. I. 1880-82. (352 pages). Price lis. 

 Itt Farts : — 1, 2, 3, aud 5, Is. 6rf. each ; 4, 6, 7, 8, and 9, 1«, eack. 



