HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
XXXVII 
Nov. 16, at Watford.—The Flora of the British Possessions ; by J. Gilbert 
Baker, F.R.S., F.L.S. 
Dec. 2, at Hertford.—The Habits and Economy of our Social Wasps ; 
by F. M. Campbell, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 
- 21, at Watford.—The Germ Theory ; by C. E. Shelly, B.A., M.B. 
Of these papers and lectures it will be seen that all hut two 
were by members of the Society, and the Council will be glad of 
offers of papers from members for the next session, as also to hear 
from any member who will undertake to conduct a field meeting 
or to assist therein. 
The following Eield Meetings were held during the year:— 
May 8.—St. Albans. 
■-15.—Welwyn. 
—— 20.—Hatfield. 
June 5.—St. Albans. 
-10.—Broxbourne. 
—— 12.—Watford. 
June 26.—Pinner. 
July 1.—Broxbourne. 
- 3.—King’s Langley. 
- 8.—Bedford. 
-10.—Hitchin. 
Nov. 6.—Watford. 
Six of these meetings were held in conjunction with other 
Societies,—those of May 15th and June 26th with the Geologists’ 
Association, that of June 5th with the St. Albans Archaeological 
Society, June 19th with the Quekett Microscopical Club, July 8th 
with the Bedfordshire Natural History Society, and July 10th 
with the Hitchin Natural History Club. 
The meeting on Nov. 6th was a Fungus Foray, on which occasion 
Mr. George Massee kindly gave his services, accompanying the 
members, who succeeded in finding one species of fungus new to 
Britain, and another that had only been met with once before. 
The Society is indebted, for hospitality kindly afforded at the 
field meetings, to Mr. S. Monckton White and Mr. I. N. Edwards 
at St. Albans, to Canon Wingfield at Welwyn, to Mr. S. T. Holland 
and the President at Watford, and to Dr. Brett after the Pinner 
meeting, to Mr. Manser at Hoddesdon, to Mr. Littleboy at King’s 
Langley, to the Mayor of Bedford, Mr. Edwin Hansom, at Bedford, 
and to Mr. W. Hansom and the Hitchin Natural History Club 
at Hitchin. 
The third volume of the present series of the Society’s * Trans¬ 
actions 5 has been completed and the fourth volume has been com¬ 
menced, two parts of the former and three of the latter, containing 
148 pages and 5 plates, having been published during the year. 
In this third volume the papers relating to the Natural History of 
the county cover a wide area. In Meteorology there are the usual 
annual reports; in Geology there are papers on our boulders and 
boulder-clay, detailed accounts of well-sections, and a list of works 
on the Geology of Hertfordshire ; in Botany there are papers on 
our diatoms and mosses and a list of the rarer flowering plants 
observed; and in Zoology the Protozoa, Mollusca, and Lepidoptera 
are treated of, and there are the usual reports on the insects and 
birds observed. In addition to these local papers the volume con¬ 
tains important memoirs on the “ Origin and Constitution of Chalk 
and Flint,” on “ Instinct,” and on the “ Nests and Eggs of Birds,” 
and also the Anniversary Addresses delivered in 1884 and 1885. 
