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April 17. — Xotes ou Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire during the 

 vear 1893 ; bv A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



The Wasp-Visitation of 1893 ; by A. E. Gibbs. 



• Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the year 1893 ; 



by Henry Lewis. 



Nov. 27.- — Herbert Spencer: a Sketch of his Life and "Work; by "William 

 E. Hughes, F.L.S. 



Dec. 28. — Report on the Conferences of Delegates to the British Asso- 

 ciation at Oxford in 1894; by John Hopkinson, F.L. S., 

 F.G S., etc. 



A Tree-Wasp's Nest at Herga, Watford ; by Daniel Hill. 



A special meeting was held on the 23rd of January, when certain 

 alterations in the Rules proposed by the Council were passed. The 

 re\-ised Rules were issued to the members with the February part of 

 tlie ' Transactions.' 



The following Field Meetings were held during the year : — 



April 28. — Ayot St. Peter and Ayot St. Lawrence. 

 May 19.- — Brocket Park and Wheathanipstead. 



26. — Luton, Caddiugton, and Dunstable. 



June 23.— Tring. 



30.^ — Stevenage, the Wymondleys, and Hitchin. 



Oct. 13. — Aldbury and Ashridge Park. 



Yisits were also made to the British Museum (I^atural History), 

 South Kensington, on the 21st of April, and to the Zoological 

 Gardens, Regent's Park, on the 16th of June; on each occasion 

 demonstrations were made by the President. 



The thanks of the ISociety are due for hospitality kindly afforded 

 at the above meetings to the Rev. H. Jephson at Ayot St. Peter; 

 to Mr. and Mrs. Upton Robins at Delaport, Wheathampstead ; to 

 the President and Mrs. Stradling at the Zoological Gardens ; 

 to Mr. A. Macdonald Brown at Beech Grove, Tring ; to Mr. Charles 

 Sworder at The Priory, Little "VYymondley; and to Mr. William 

 Ransom at Fairfield, Hitchin. 



The seventh volume of the present series of the Society's 

 ' Transactions ' has been completed, and the eighth has been 

 commenced, two parts of each, containing 148 pages and seven 

 plates, ha^dng been published during the year. Three-fourths of 

 the papers in the seventh volume are essentially local, and the 

 rest, with two exceptions, have some local bearing. The papers 

 which give the results of investigations in Hertfordshire are, in 

 meteorology and phenology the usual annual reports, eight in all, 

 a paper on the Climate of Watford, and one on Temperature and 

 Rainfall at Throcking, each giving the results of ten years' 

 observations, and a jSTaturalist's Calendar for Mid-Hertfordshire ; in 

 botany a paper on the Mycetozoa. witli a list of species found 

 in Herts and Beds, and a list of Hertfordshire Hepaticae ; and in 

 Zoology notes on the Lepidoptera, the Birds, and the Mammalia 

 observed in the county. With local allusions there are two geo- 

 logical papers, one on Ice and the other on Coal, and two zoological 

 papers, one on Terrestrial British Quadrupeds and the other on 

 Bats and some other Beasts. One of the two Presidential Addresses 



