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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
Smithsonian Institution. Annual Report for 1882. 8vo. Washington 
(U.S.A.), 1883. 
Somersetshire Natural History and Archeological Society. Pro¬ 
ceedings for 1883. 8vo. Taunton, 1884. 
South London Microscopical and Natural History Field Club. Report 
for 1884. 8vo. London, 1884. 
United States. Compendium of the Tenth Census. Parts 1, 2, 1880. 8vo. 
Washington (U.S.A.), 1883. 
United States Entomological Commission. Third Report (1880-82). 8vo. 
Washington (U.S.A.), 1883. 
United States Geological and Geographical Survey. Report for 1878. 
Parts 1 and 2. 8vo. Washington (U.S.A.), 1883. 
-. Maps, Panoramas, and Tertiary History of the Grand Canon 
District, with Atlas. Ib. 
-. Second Annual Report. Ib. 
Wiltshire Archeological and Natural History Society. Magazine. 
Yol. xxi, Nos. 62, 63. 8vo. Devizes, 1883. 
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society. Proceedings. New 
Series, Yol. viii, part 2. 8vo. Leeds, 1884. 
Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. Transactions. Part 7. 8vo. London 
and Leeds, 1884. 
Ordinary Meeting, 19th February, 1885, at Hertford. 
C. E. Shelly, Esq., B.A., M.B., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “List of Works on the Geology of Hertfordshire, 1874-83.” 
Ey John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., etc. ( Transactions , Yol. Ill, 
p. 165.) 
2. “ Some Hertfordshire W r ell-sections.” Dy William Whitaker, 
B.A. (Lond.), F.G.S., Assoc.Inst.C.E. ( Transactions , Yol. Ill, 
p. 173.) _ 
Ordinary Meeting, 3rd March, 1885, at Watford. 
Professor John Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. William Barker, Overbury, Watford, and Mr. W. E. Moore, 
Westfield, Watford, were elected Members of the Society. 
The Rev. H. E. H. Burchell-Herne, Bushey Grange, Watford; Mr. 
James Hadley, Warwick House, Watford; Professor T. McKenny 
Hughes, M.A., F.S.A., F.G.S., Trinity College, Cambridge; 
Mrs. Molyneux, Langley House, Xing’s Langley; Miss Pemberton, 
Langley House, Xing’s Langley ; and Mr. W. F. D. Schreiber, 
Dalton House, Watford, were proposed as Members. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “ Diatoms : their Nature and Habits.” By Francis Ransom. 
[Transactions, Yol. Ill, p. 197.) 
2. “ Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the year 
1884.” By John E. Littleboy. ( Transactions , Yol. Ill, p. 207.) 
Mr. Ransom’s paper was illustrated by Mr. F. W. Phillips, F.L.S., 
by means of his refulgent diagrams.* 
* Described in * Trans. Herts Nat. Hist. Soc.,’ Yol. II, p. xli. 
