HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 
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The following Field Meetings were held during the year:— 
March 26.—Aldbury and Ashridge Park. 
April 11.—Rickmansworth and Cheneys. 
May 16.—Hertford and Ware. 
June 20.—Cassiobury Park, Watford. 
July 11.—Watford and Rickmansworth. 
Oct. 17.—Bricket Wood. 
Two of these meetings were held in conjunction with other 
Societies; that on the 16th of May with the Geologists’ Association, 
and that on the 11th of July with the Quekett Microscopical Club. 
The meeting on the 26th of March was a Cryptogamic Meeting, and 
that on the 17th of October was the Third Annual Fungus Foray. 
On both occasions Dr. Braithwaite, F.L.S., and Mr. E. M. Holmes, 
F.L.S., kindly gave their services, accompanying the members and 
identifying the Mosses and other Cryptogamic plants met with. 
The Society is indebted for hospitality kindly afforded at Field 
Meetings, to the President, Professor Attfield, F.R.S., at Watford, 
and to Mr. T. F. Buxton at Easneye Park, Ware. The Society is 
also indebted to the Earl of Essex for permission to visit the private 
grounds of Cassiobury House at the Cassiobury Park meeting. 
In addition to the above Field Meetings, visits were paid on the 
25th of April to the Zoological Gardens, Regent’s Park, when Dr. 
P. L. Sclater, F.R.S., the Secretary of the Society, gave a most 
interesting lecture on Marsupials and Edentates; and on the 28th 
of May to Kew Gardens, where Mr. John B. Jackson, A.L.S., gave 
some very interesting explanations of various specimens in the 
Museum of Economic Botany. 
Four parts of the Society’s ‘Transactions,’ containing 172 pages 
and one plate, have been issued during the year, and two parts, one 
of which is already printed and the other in the press, completing 
the present volume, wiH soon be in the hands of Members. 
The new Library Catalogue (of 52 pages) has been completed and 
issued, but, in place of a subject-index, your Editor, with the 
approval of the Council, has given an index of the names of the 
authors. The subject-index had been prepared, but, as the catalogue 
itself is classified, it was considered that an index to the authors, 
while taking up much less space, would be more useful. About 
650 separate works and 300 pamphlets are catalogued, and the 
names of nearly 500 authors are indexed. The number of volumes 
in the library is nearly 1200. 
The late Mr. A. R. Pryor’s ‘ Flora of Hertfordshire ’ is at last 
in the hands of an able and experienced botanist, Mr. B. Daydon 
Jackson, Botanical Secretary of the Linnean Society, whose services 
your Editor has been successful in securing. The whole of Mr. 
Pryor’s MS. intended for publication has been copied by Mr. A. E. 
Gibbs, the original MS. being kept intact. The first four sheets 
(of 16 pages each) have already been printed, and a considerable 
further portion is in the press, so that there is every probability 
of the work being brought to a satisfactory conclusion within a 
reasonable time. 
