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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
Ordinary Meeting, 11th: December, 1885, at Hertford. 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. John Henry Buxton, Hunsdon Bury, Ware, and the Bey. J. 
D. Parker, LL.D., Bennington Lodge, Stevenage, were proposed 
as Members of the Society. 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ The Great Essex Earthquake of the 22nd of April, 1884.” By 
Professor R. Meldola, E.R.A.S., E.I.C., E.C.S. ( Transactions , 
Yol. IY, p. 23.) 
Ordinary Meeting, 15th December, 1885, at Watford. 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. John Henry Buxton and the Rev. J. D. Parker, LL.D., were 
elected Members of the Society. 
The following paper was read :— 
“ On Melicerta ringens ; a chapter from the great Book of Nature 
as revealed by the Microscope.” By John Badcock, E.R.M.S. 
(Communicated by E. G. Lloyd, Hon. Sec.) ( Transactions , Yol. 
IY, p. 33.) 
A number of living animalculge provided by Mr. Erancis Ransom 
were exhibited under microscopes by Mr. J. E. Groome, Mr. 
Hopkinson, and Mr. Lloyd, in illustration of the lecture. 
Ordinary Meeting, 26th January, 1886, at Watford. 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Honourable Mrs. Barnett, Edge Grove, Aldenham, Watford, 
was proposed as a Member of the Society. 
The following paper was read:— 
“ On a Diagram for a Model of the Solar System to scal,e.” By 
Arthur Cottam, E.R.A.S. ( Transactions , Yol. IY, p. 97.) 
Ordinary Meeting, 2nd Eebruary, 1886, at Watford. 
Professor Attfield, Ph.D., F.R.S., F.I.C., F.C.S., President, in the Chair. 
The Honourable Mrs. Barnett was elected a Member of the 
Society. 
The Rev. T. G. Gibbons, M.A., Rome Land, St. Albans, was 
proposed as a Member. 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ Plants and their Uses.” By John R. Jackson, A.L.S. 
Mr. R. P. Blathwayt and Mr. Daniel Hill were elected Auditors 
of the accounts for 1885. 
