SESSION' 1893-94. xxi 



A discussion onsuod in which the President, Professor Attfiehl, 

 Dr. Erett, Mr. Hopkiuson, and Mr. Vaughau lloberts took part. 



OfiDLNAEr Meeting, 17th April, 1894, at "Watford. 



Arthur Stradling, Esq., M.R.C.S., F.Z.S., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Mr. Alfred E. Cox, Mr. C. A. Cuny, Mr. Daniel A. Wehrschmidt, 

 and Mr. T. P. Grosart Wells, L.E,.C P! (Edin.), were elected Members 

 of the Society. 



Miss Adams, St. Peter's House, St. Albans, and Mr. Noel Heaton, 

 Sans Souci, Watford, wei'e proposed for membership. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "The Wasp Infestation of 1893." By A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S. {Transactions, Vol. YIII, p. 22.) 



2. " Eeport on Phcnological Phenomena observed in Hertford- 

 shire during the year 1893." By Edward Mawley, E.R.Met.Soc, 

 P.E.H.S. {Transactions, Vol. VIII, p. 27.) 



3. " Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the year 

 1893." By Henry Lewis. {Transactions, Vol. VIII, p. 49.) 



4. " Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire during the 

 year 1893." By A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., E.E.S. {Transactions, 

 Vol. VIII, p. 74.) 



The following papers were taken as read : — 



1. "Report on the Rainfall in Hertfordshire in the year 1893." 

 By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Mct.Soc. {Transactions, 

 Vol. VIII, p. 33 ) 



2. " Climatological Observations taken in Hertfordshire in the 

 year 1893." By John Hopkinson. {Transactions, Vol. VIII, 

 p. 45.) 



3. "Meteorological Observations taken at the Grange, St. Albans, 

 during the year 1893." By John Hopkinson. {Transactions, Vol. 

 VIII, p. 57.) 



Bye Meeting, 2 1st Aj-eil, 1894. 

 NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, SOUTH KENSINGTON. 



This meeting was under the conductorship of the President, 

 Mr, Arthur Stradling, and was well attended, a party of about 

 fifty assembling in the Great Hall of the ^luseum. 



The members were received by Sir William Flower, Director 

 of the Museum and an honorary member of the Society, who 

 invited special attention to a new collection of representative birds' 

 eggs, and to some extraordinary insects just brought over from 

 Madagascar, and exhibited on the actual slips of moss-covered bark 

 on which they were caught. These creatures are supposed to 

 illustrate better than anything else in the animal world the 



