HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
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Ordinary Meeting, 18th November, 1884, at 'Watford. 
John Evans, Esq., D.O.L., LL D., Treas. E.S., F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., . 
Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Miss Edwards, Westminster Lodge, St. Albans, and Mrs. Eobins, 
The Elms, Watford, were proposed as Members of the Society. 
The following lecture was delivered — 
“ Our Serpent-foes in India.” By Sir Joseph Eayrer, M.D., 
K.C.S.I., LL.D., F.E.S., F.Z.S., F.E.GLS, (Communicated by 
Arthur Stradling, C.M.Z.S.) 
Ordinary Meeting, 20th November, 1884, at Hertford. 
B. T. Andrews, Esq., in the Chair. 
The Eev. John Lingen Seager, M.A., High Street, Stevenage, 
was proposed as a Member of the Society. 
The meeting was held in conjunction with the Hertfordshire 
Bee-Keepers’ Association, and was devoted to a discussion on the 
recent advances in the art of Bee-keeping. 
Ordinary Meeting, 11th December, 1884, at Hitchin. 
William Eansom, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The following paper was read :•— 
“ On Spiders.” By E. M. Campbell, E.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.M.S. 
The meeting was held in conjunction with the Hitchin Natural 
History Club. 
Ordinary Meeting, 16th December, 1884, at Watford. 
George Eooper, Esq., F.Z.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Miss Edwards, Westminster Lodge, St. Albans; Mrs. Eobins, 
The Elms, Watford; and the Eev. J. Lingen Seager, M.A., High 
Street, Stevenage, were elected Members of the Society. 
Mrs. Applebee, Stanton House, St. Andrews, Watford; Mr. A. 
P. Blathwayt, Erogmore House, Watford; Mr. Thomas Alfred 
Dennison, Airedale House, Queen’s Eoad, Watford; Sir James 
Longden, G.C.M.Gf., E.E.Gf.S., Longhope, St. Andrews, Watford; 
and Mr. Charles Edward Playfair, Staff-Surgeon E.N. retired, The 
Fishery, Boxmoor, were proposed as Members. 
The following paper was read :■— 
“ The Acclimatization of Eood Fishes.” By W. Oldham 
Chambers, F.L.S., Secretary of the National Fish-culture Associa¬ 
tion. (Communicated by F. Gf. Lloyd, Hon. Sec.) 
Mr. Chambers said that the Acclimatization of Fishes was the science or art of 
distributing them from one country to another and retaining life amongst them 
in rivers, lakes, and other waters in which the fish did not previously exist. In 
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