HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
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Torrington House, St. Albans; the Bev. S. Spencer Pearce, M.A., 
Tower Hill, Much Hadham ; and Mr. A. Webster, Linsters, Bick- 
mansworth, were proposed as Members of the Society. 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ Pre-historic Man in Britain.” By Henry Hicks, M.D., P.E.S., 
F.G.S. (Transactions, Yol. Y, p. 147.) 
Ordinary Meeting, 29th March, 1889, at Hertford. 
Augustus Hawks, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following paper was read :— 
“Further Eeminiscences of Hertford during the 17th and 18th 
Centuries.” By E. T. Andrews. 
Ordinary Meeting, 12th April, 1889, at Watford. 
George Hooper, Esq., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Mr. H. Leslie Bates, L.B.C.P.(Lond.), Mr. A. H. Boys, L.E.C.P. 
(Edin.), Mr. Harry Hine, Miss Georgina Ormerod, the Eev. S. 
Spencer Pearce, M.A., and Mr. A. Webster, were elected Members 
of the Society. 
Mr. W. D. Bowers, High Street, Watford, Mrs. Horsman, Kytes, 
Watford, and Mr. E. E. Webster, M.B.C.S., Chequer Street, St. 
Albans, were proposed as Members of the Society. 
The following papers were read:— 
1. “Eeport on the Eainfall in Hertfordshire in 1887.” By 
John Hopkinson, E.L.S., P.G.S., E.E.Met.Soc. ( Transactions , 
Yol. Y, p. 155.) 
2. “Meteorological Observations taken at The Grange, St. 
Albans, during the year 1887.” By John Hopkinson. ( Trans¬ 
actions , Yol. Y, p. 161.) 
3. “ Climatological Observations taken in Hertfordshire in 1887.” 
By John Hopkinson. ( Transactions , Yol. Y, p. 202.) 
4. “ Eeport on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertford¬ 
shire during the years 1887 and 1888.” By John Hopkinson. 
(Transactions , Yol. Y, p. 177.) 
5. “ Notes on the Chalk Bock.” By John Morison, M.D., F.G.S. 
(Transactions , Yol. Y, p. 199.) 
6. “The Study of the Injuries and Diseases of Plants.” By 
Alfred T. Brett, M.D. ( Transactions , Yol. Y, p. 213.) 
7. “List of Flowering Plants observed in Hertfordshire during 
the year 1888.” By Ada Selby. 
8. “ Some Notes on the Lepidoptera of St. Albans and its Neigh¬ 
bourhood.” By A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S. ( Transactions , Yol. Y, p. 181.) 
9. “Note on the Bearing of Cuckoos at Cassiobury, Watford.” 
By John Powell. (Communicated by Dr. A. T. Brett.) ( Trans¬ 
actions , Yol. Y, p. 215.) 
