XXX ~ PROCEEDINGS, 



part, and containing drifted fossils, and Triassic and otlier pebbles ; 

 about 15 feet of sands with patches of gravel containing similar 

 debris ; a lower bed of boulder-clay one foot thick, similar to the 

 upper one ; and about 15 feet of ochreous flint-gravel and sand 

 with Triassic quartzites, reposing on disintegrated chalk. 



The Eev. G. H. 0. Kendall, of Hatfield, who has been investi- 

 gating this section, met the party here and showed specimens which 

 had been carefully collected from the various layers, one of which, 

 of Carboniferous Limestone, finely striated and showing sections 

 of Crinoid stems, was especially interesting. 



Leaving the geologists to continue their investigations, the 

 members of the Hertfordshire Society left for Mill Green, the cyclists 

 riding on to order tea there, and the pedestrians strolling across 

 the meadows. After tea the two societies reunited and were 

 conducted by Mr. Kendall through the woods which fringe the 

 north-west corner of Hatfield Park, crossing the Lea at the point 

 where it is expanded into an ornamental sheet of water ; and on 

 arriving at Hatfield the societies again pai'ted, the members of 

 the Geologists' Association being left at the " Eed Lion" to the 

 enjoyment of a substantial tea. 



Field Meeting, 11th June, 1898. 

 LATIMER AND CHENIES. 



This meeting was held in conjunction with the St. Albans 

 Architectural and Archaeological Society, and was under the 

 direction of Mr. William Page, F.S.A., and the Secretaries of 

 the Hertfordshire Natural History Society. 



Members of the two societies assembled on the village green 

 of Chenies at 12 noon, most of them having cycled with Mr. Carter 

 from Watford and Mr. Hopkinson from St. Albans, and again 

 at 3, when they were joined by several others. 



The little village of Latimer was first visited, the route taken 

 being through the woods, partly along Lady Cheyne's Walk, with 

 a halt for a picnic luncheon on the way, and then by the foot-bridge 

 over the rippling river Chess, which below this point divides Herts 

 from Bucks. The church, dedicated to St. Maiy Magdalene, was 

 inspected. It is situated between the present village and Lord 

 Chesham's Park, which now covers the site of the destroyed 

 portion of the once more-extensive \'illage. The church was 

 built in 1841 on the site of a Chapel of Ease dating from before 

 1213. It was much improved in 1867 by Sir Gilbert Scott, who 

 must have undertaken the work M-ith peculiar pleasure, having 

 spent some of the happies^t clays of his childhood at Latimer. In 

 his ' Eecollections ' (1879) he says: "The country there is 

 peculiarly charming, and so wholly different from my own home 

 as to be like a new woidd. My love of woodland was hei-e 

 transferred from oak woods choked up with hazel and blackthorn, 

 to beech woods through which you may wander without obstruction. 



