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Tlio followin<» papers or lectures have been read or delivered 

 at Watford during the year : — 



Jan. 25. — Nature ou aud around Mount Siuui ; by D. Harvey Attficid, 



M.A., M.B., D r.II. 

 Feb. 22. — Anniversary Address — Chalk Water in Hertfordshire ; by the 



Trcsident, William Whitaker, B.A., F.ll.S., Pres.G.S., 



Assoc. Inst. C.E. 

 March 22. — Report on the Conferences of Delegates to the British Association 



at Toronto in 1897 ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., 



Assoc. Inst. C. E. 



Report on the Rainfall in Hertfordshire in the Year 1897 ; by 



John Hopkinson. 



The Pahvolithic Deposits at Hitchin and their Relation to the 



Glacial E])och ; by Clement Ileid, F.L.S., F.G.S. 

 April 26. — Meteorolosjica) Observations taken in Hertfordshire in the Year 

 1897 Tby John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., etc. 



Report ou I'henolo.Lrical Phenomena observed in Hertfordshire 



during the Year 1897; by Edward Mawley, Sec.R.Met.Soc. 



Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the Year 1897 ; 



by Alan F. Crossman, F.L.S. 



Miscellaneous Notes and Observations — Meteorology ; Botany ; 



Zoology. 

 Nov. 15. — The Chachvell Spring and the Hertfordshire Bourne ; by John 



Hopkinson, F.L.S. , F.G.S., etc. 

 Dec. 13. — Birds and their Nests in Hertfordshire ; by Alan F. Crossman, 



F.L.S, 



The following lecture was delivered at St. Albans : — 



March 18. — A Visit to Canada and the Falls of Niagara ; by John Hopkinson, 

 F.L.S., F.G.S., etc. 



The following Field Meetings were held during the year : — 



May 7. — Ashridge Park and Gardens. 



14. — Ayot Green and Hatfield Hyde. 



June 1 1 . — Latimer and Chenies. 



The Society is indebted to Earl Brownlow for permission to 

 visit the Gardens of Ashridge House, and to the Duke of Bedford 

 for permission to inspect the Russell Chapel in Chenies Church. 



The meeting on the 14th of May was held in conjunction with 

 the Geologists' Association, and that on the 11th of June in con- 

 junction with the St. Albans Archaeological Society. 



On the 30th of April a visit was paid to the Natural History 

 Museum, South Kensington, when Dr. Henrj- Woodward, F.R.S., 

 Keeper of Geology, showed and explained some additions recently 

 made to the geological and zoological collections, including the 

 new Whale Room before it was opened to the public ; and on the 

 25th of June the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, were visited 

 under the guidance of Mr. Arthur Stradling, who directed special 

 attention to such creatures as are on the verge of extinction. 



Three parts of the ninth volume of the present series of the 

 Society's ' Transactions,' and one part of the tenth volume, con- 

 taining 126 pages, have been published during the year. Twenty- 

 four out of the twenty-eight papers in the ninth volume record 

 the results of local investigation. There are ten papers which 

 treat of the Meteorology and Phenology of Hertfordshire, being 



VOL. X. — PART VIII. D 



