HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. XIX 
the wood into Watling Street. On one side of this path are the 
ruins of a Roman wall, built of flints with courses of Roman tiles, 
and on the other is a deep fosse, the wall and fosse together 
apparently having formed an important section of the defensive 
works of Verulam. This spot is now locally known as the 
“Verulam Hills,” and the section of Watling Street which was 
then entered, as King Harry Lane. From the footpath near the 
lower end of the wood a block of the old wall of Verulam was 
seen, and in a field just beyond the point where Watling Street 
is crossed by the Hempstead Road there is another block of this 
wall, on which was found in fruit the curious extinguisher moss, 
Eucalyptus vulgaris. 
Pre Wood was entered near the farm just across this field and 
was strolled through into Gorhambury Park. In the wood the 
wood-anemone (. Anemone nemorosa), wood-sorrel (Adorn moscha- 
telina), blue-bell (Endymion nutans ), and daffodil (Narcissus Pseudo¬ 
narcissus), were found in flower, and a few mosses were collected. 
The return walk was by Gorham Block and through the Hollows, 
along King Harry Lane for a short distance, and then across the 
fields to Woad Mead, where the members and their friends were 
very kindly entertained at tea by Mr. and Mrs. Phillips. 
The meeting was under the direction of Mr. Hopkinson, with 
Dr. Braithwaite and Mr. A. E. Gibbs as bryologists. 
Ordinary Meeting, 8th May, 1888, at Watford. 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., etc., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Rev. J. Harvey Bloom, B.A., and Mr. Allan Maclean, 
L.R.C.S., were elected Members of the Society. 
A letter was read from the Secretaries of the International Geo¬ 
logical Congress stating that the fourth triennial meeting of the 
Congress would be held in London (in Burlington House) from 
the 17th to the 22nd of September, and inviting members of the 
Society to become members of the Congress. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “ The International Geological Congress, with special reference 
to the London Meeting in 1888.” By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 
F.G.S., etc* 
2. “ Report on Flowering Plants observed in Hertfordshire during 
the year 1887.” By Ada Selby. 
3. “Report on Insects observed in Hertfordshire in 1887.” By 
F. W. Silvester, F.R.Met.Soc. ( Transactions , Vol. V, p. 89.) 
4. “ Fish-fatality in the River Colne at Watford.” By Alfred 
T. Brett, M.D. ( Transactions , Vol. V, p. 93.) 
* A copy of this paper was inserted in part 1 of the present volume. 
