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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
offered his 36 shares to the Company.” They were accepted 
at £500 per annum, which is still paid. So much has the property 
increased in value, that while the Crown receives scarcely £14 per 
share, each share is probably worth at the present time at least 
£1000 per annum. 
On leaving Amwell, the New River and Lea Navigation, which 
here flow through a wide flat of river-gravel, were crossed by the 
bridges, and the River Ash by a ferry, the party being taken across 
in four detachments. Easneye Park Wood was then entered, Mr. 
T. Powell Buxton here meeting the members and conducting them 
to his residence, where they were most hospitably entertained. 
After refreshments had been partaken of, Mr. Buxton’s collection 
of rocks and fossils was inspected and his extensive gardens and 
conservatories were visited. In the conservatories chrysalides 
of the swallow-tail butterfly (Papilio machaon) were being reared, 
the bright-coloured imagos of which will hatch out a little later in 
the season. Mr. Buxton’s palatial residence is beautifully situated 
in the midst of a wood on a bill overlooking the valleys of the Lea and 
Ash, a portion of the wood having been cleared for the house and 
gardens. The bluebell being in full flower, on every side extended a 
carpet of blue, relieved here and there by clumps of the white 
narcissus, which had been purposely planted. 
On leaving the house, a route was taken through Easneye Park to 
where it overlooks the valley of the Ash, and the party proceeded 
across this valley, by Widbury Hill, where some small chalk-pits 
were seen, to Ware. The extensive brickfields between Ware and 
Ware Park were crossed, but there was not time to examine the 
brick-earth beds nor the gravel-pits adjoining them on the hill¬ 
side to the north, which are of sufficient interest to be visited 
on another occasion. Ware Park was then entered, and its fine old 
avenue traversed, Hertford station being reached in time for the 
6*50 train. The distance walked was about twelve miles. 
Eield Meeting, 20th June, 1885. 
CASSIOBURY PARK, WATFORD. 
A Eield Meeting in Cassiobury Park, with a visit to the gardens 
of Cassiobury House, is always attractive, and this meeting was the 
most numerously attended of any in the year. 
The members, numbering about 40, assembled at the principal 
entrance to the park at half-past two, and crossed the park, a few 
driving, but by far the larger number walking, to the Swiss 
Cottage grounds. Here some time was spent in viewing the trees, 
of which there are some finely-grown specimens and others of con¬ 
siderable rarity, and in looking for plants and insects of interest. 
The small-flowered balsam (Impatiens parviflora) was found here in 
as great profusion as ever, and a rather rare moth, known as the 
“ peach-blossom,” was captured “ at rest ” on a lady’s dress, but the 
weather being cold and cloudy it was not a good entomological day. 
