255 



Field-experiments at Eothamsted, liii. 



Field Meetings, reports of, 1878, May 

 4, Cassiobury, Temple of Pan, and 

 Langleybury, xx ; May 18, Tyler's 

 Hill, xxii ; June 1, St. Albans, xxiii ; 

 June 16, Hertford and Ware, xxvi; 

 July 3, Moor Park, xxix ; 1879, 

 May 3, Abbot's Langley and Leaves- 

 den, xUii; May 17, Watford, xlv ; 

 May 31, Eickmansworth, xlviii ; 

 June 14, Harpendenand Eothamsted, 

 liii ; June 25, Wehvyn, hi ; July 

 12, Chiltern Green, lix. 



Fieldes Weir, rainfall at, in 1877, 99. 



Fir-grove at Cassiobury, 42. 



Fish of the Bulborne and Gade, 116. 



Floods at Watford, xxv, 161, 217, 

 228. 



Flora, British, origin and distribution 

 of, 129. 



Forbes' sub-floras, 132. 



FoRDHAM, H. G. : On the Bee-orchis 

 near Odsey, xxv ; phenological ob- 

 servations by, 101, 229; OnaBoulder 

 now in the Garden of the Eoyston 

 Institute, U, 249 ; on the partridge 

 removing her eggs, Ui. 



Forestry of Herts, 41. 



Fossils from the Wenlock Shale at the 

 AVare boring, list of, 247. 



Fryth, The, Welw-yn, visited, Iviii. 



Funaria hyijrometr'ica, xxiv. 



Gaddesden, Great, rainfall at, in 1877, 

 99; in 1878, 225; Gade at, 115; 

 hobby hawk at, 143. 



Gaddesden Hoo, owl at, 18. 



Gade, comse of, 113, 115 ; fish of, 

 116 ; crayfish and mussels in, 126. 



Gee, Eev. Canon : Famous Trees in 

 Hertfordshire, ix, 1. 



Germ theory of disease, 165, 168. 



Geology of the Colne valley, xlvii. 



Geology, study of, Ixii, 171 ; notes on, 

 249, "250. 



Germanic sub-flora, 132. 



Gilbert, Dr. J. H., on field-experi- 

 ments at Eothamsted, liii. 



Glass, peculiar markings on, xxvi. 



Godwin-Austen, E. A.C., on the boruig 

 near Ware, 248. 



Gorhambury, growth of trees at, 3 ; 

 large trees in, 8 ; Oak Wood in, 13 ; 

 rainfall at, in 1877, 99 ; in 1878, 

 225. 



Gospel Oak, origin of the name, 9. 



Gramiuaceie, how affected by manure, 

 liv, 141. 



Grapes, curious sport in, 250. 



Grass plots, experimental, at Eotham- 

 sted, Uv, 140. 



Gravel-pits at Colney Butts, xlvii ; in 



Hagden Lane, xlviii ; near Tewin 



Water, Ivi. 

 Great Gaddesden, see Gaddesden. 

 Great Munden, birds shot at, 29, 32. 

 Greensand, Lower, thickness of, 247. 

 Greenwich, meteoroloiiv of, compared 



with that of Watford", 91, 211. 

 Greg, E. P. : On Badgers near Bimt- 



ingford, xxvi. 

 Grimston Oak at Oxhey, 10. 



Hagden Lane gravel-pits, xlviii. 



Hankury, E. : On Destruction of 

 Chestnut Trees, lii. 



Harford, J. U. : The Physical Cha- 

 racteristics of Minerals, xx, 104. 



Harpenden, field meeting at, liii ; rain- 

 fall at, in 1877, 99 ; in 1878, 225 ; 

 laboratoiy at, 141; phenological ob- 

 servations at, in 1878, 229. 



Hatfield, damage by storm at, 219 ; 

 raiufallat, in 1878, 225. 



Hatfield Park, Lion Oak in, 7 ; Queen 

 Elizabeth's Oak in, 10 ; oak in, near 

 Keeper's Lodge, 11 ; Eoyal Oaks 

 in, 12. 



Hawthorn, mistletoe on, xxv. 



Hemel Hempstead, rainfall at, in 1877, 

 99; in 1878, 225 ; Gade at, 115. 



Henslow, Eev. G. : The Origin and 

 Present Distribution of the British 

 Flora, xxxi, 129. 



Hertford, field meeting at, xxvi ; 

 Tertiary beds at, xx\'ii ; rainfall at, 

 in 1877, 99 ; in 1878, 225 ; damage 

 by storm at, 219 ; phenological ob- 

 servations at, in 1878, 229 ; section 

 at boring near, 245. 



Hertford Castle visited, xxvi. 



Hertford Heath visited, xxvii. 



Hertfordshire, famous trees in, ix, 1 ; 

 products of, 41 ; forestry of, 41 ; 

 hazel -cultivation in, 43 ; cherry- 

 cidtivation in, 43 ; hay-making in, 

 43 ; most fertile district of, 44 ; 

 straw-plaiting in, 44 ; root crops of, 

 45 ; coprolites in, 46 ; water-cress 

 cultivation in, 47 ; rose-cultivation 

 in, 48 ; especially residential, 48 ; 

 phenological observations in, in 1876, 

 37 ; in 1877, 101 ; in 1878, 229 ; 

 rainfall in, in 1877, 97 ; in 1878, 

 223, 259 ; discovery of Silurian rocks 

 in, 241. 



Hertfordshire conglomerate at Eadkft, 

 xxv ; ash and elm, 41 ; rainfall 

 stations, 97, 224 ; naturalists' calen- 

 dar, 234, 235. 



High Down, rainfall at, in 1878, 225. 



Hinksworth, fine oaks at, 41. 



