HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
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Field Meeting, 21st June, 1884. 
LEAYESDEN WOODS, WATFORD. 
In the neighbourhood of Watford there is scarcely a wood which 
has not been selected, on one or more occasions, for a visit by the 
Society. Derry Grove near Aldenham, the Oxhey Woods near 
Pinner, the Swiss Cottage Woods in Cassiobury Park, and the 
Temple of Pan Woods at the Grove, have each been visited; and 
Pricket Wood, the Cassiobury wood-walks, the Tunnel Woods, and 
the Leavesden Woods, have several times been strolled through. 
The present occasion, however, is the first on which that portion 
of the Leavesden Woods which is known as the Gullett has been 
entered. 
Assembling at Watford Junction Station, the members of the 
Society and their friends walked along the St. Albans road to 
Lea Farm, opposite to which the Gullett Wood was entered. A 
public footpath leads from here to Leavesden, and this was followed 
to near the point where the Gullett and Long Spring meet, when a 
deviation was made into and across the upper end of the latter 
wood. In the course of this walk, although nothing of rarity was 
found, a fair amount of botanical information was imparted, many 
of the younger members of the party especially being made ac¬ 
quainted for the first time with the names, the organisation, and 
the properties of the plants seen in flower, and of a considerable 
number of those not in flower which were identified by their leaves. 
The Tunnel Woods were then visited, and by this time the party 
had materially increased in number. Still keeping to the wood¬ 
lands, Nascott Wood was now strolled through, and soon after 
leaving it the grounds of Nascott House were entered. Here the 
members were received by Mr. and Miss Hooper, and hospitably 
entertained, as on two previous occasions, in 1882 and 1883. Re¬ 
freshments were served on the lawn, and in the house a room was 
devoted to the exhibition of microscopic and other objects and 
scientific apparatus, lent for the occasion by members of the 
Society. 
The meeting was under the direction of Mr. J. Hopkinson. 
Field Meeting, 12th July, 1884. 
RADLETT AND RATTLER’S GREEN. 
Pain had been falling the greater part of the day, and was still 
falling somewhat heavily when the members assembled at Radlett 
Station, to examine the Hertfordshire conglomerate at Newberries, 
and “ swallow-holes” near Tattler’s Green, under the direction of 
Mr. John Hopkinson. The greater number had driven from Watford, 
a few had come by train from St. Albans, and a very small contin¬ 
gent of the Geologists’ Association arrived by train from London, 
this being a joint meeting of this Association and the Hertfordshire 
Society. 
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