HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
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Ordinary Meeting, 19th April, 1887, at Watford. 
F. M. Campbell, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., F.E.S., President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. Arthur It. Nicols, F.G.S., F.B.G.S., Mr. T. Y. Boberts, and 
Mr. W. Weston, were elected Members of the Society. 
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Braden, Malden Cottage, Clarendon Boad, 
Watford, and Mr. H. A. Yincent, 11, Gladstone Boad, Watford, 
were proposed as Members. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “ Meteorological Observations taken at Wansford House, 
Watford, during the year 1886.” By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 
E. G.S., F.B.Met.Soc. ( Transactions , Yol. IY, p. 169.) 
2. “ Beport on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertford¬ 
shire during the year 1886.” By John Hopkinson. ( Transactions , 
Yol. IY, p. 176.) 
3. “A Naturalist’s Calendar for the Northern Border of Hert¬ 
fordshire.” By H. George Eordham, P.G.S. ( Transactions, Yol. 
IY, p. 193.) 
4. “List of Flowering Plants observed in Hertfordshire during 
the year 1886.” By Ada Selby.* 
5. “ Beport on Insects observed in Hertfordshire during the year 
1886.” By P. W. Silvester, F.B.Met.Soc. (Transactions, Yol. 
IY, p. 201.) 
6. “ On Fog-bows at Odsey.” By H. George Fordham, F.G.S. 
(.Transactions , Yol. IY, p. 221.) 
7. “ Note on a Nectarine growing on a Peach Tree.” By Alfred 
T. Brett, M.D. ( Transactions , Yol. IY, p. 222.) 
8. “A Biography of a Cuckoo.” By John E. Littleboy. {Trans¬ 
actions, Yol. IY, p. 223.) 
9. “ Note on Hogs entrapped while following Babbits.” By the 
Bight Honourable the Lord Ebury, F.B.G.S., F.B.Met.Soc. 
{Transactions, Yol. IY, p. 223.) 
10. “ Miscellaneous Notes.” By Alfred T. Brett, M.D. 
Ordinary Meeting, 9th May, 1887, at St. Albans. 
John Hopkinson, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., Yice-President, in the Chair. 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ Earthquakes and their Delation to Yolcanic Phenomena.” By 
F. W. Budler, F.G.S., Hon. Sec. A.I., Pres. Geol. Assoc., Curator 
of the Museum of Practical Geology. 
Maps and diagrams were exhibited by Mr. Budler in illustration 
of his lecture. 
* To he incorporated with the list for 1887. 
