XXII 
PROCEEDINGS OE THE 
New York State Museum oe Natural History. 42nd Annual Report, 
for 1888. 8vo. Albany, 1889. 
Rugby School Natural History Society. Report for 1888. 8vo. Rugby, 
’ 1889. 
Selborne Magazine. Yol. ii, Nos. 13, 14. 8vo. London, 1889. 
Somersetshire Archeological and Natural History Society. Pro¬ 
ceedings. New Series, vol. xiy. 8vo. Taunton, 1889. 
United States Geological Survey. Monographs. Vol. xii. Geology of 
the Mining Industry of Leadville, Colorado, with Atlas. By S. F. Emmons. 
4to. Washington, 1886. 
-. -. Vol. xiii. Geology of the Quicksilver Deposits of the 
Pacific Slope, with an Atlas. By G. F. Becker. Ib. 1888. 
-. Bulletin. Nos. 40-47. 8vo. Washington, 1887-88. 
■-. Mineral Resources of the United States . . . 1887. By R. T. 
Day. Ib. 1888. 
Warwickshire Naturalists’ Field Club. 33rd Annual Report, for 1888. 
8vo. Warwick [1889]. 
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society. Proceedings. New Series, 
vol. xi, part 1. 8vo. Halifax, 1889. 
Purchased. 
Botany, Journal of. New Series, vol. xviii. 8vo. London, 1889. 
Buckler, W. The Larvae of the British Butterflies and Moths. Vol. iii. 
[Ray Society.) 8vo. London, 1889. 
Entomologist. Vol. xxii. 8vo. London, 1889. 
Geological Record for 1880-84. Vol. ii. 8vo. London, 1889. 
Year-book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. 
Sixth Annual Issue. 8vo. London, 1889. 
Zoologist. 3rd Series, vol. xiii. 8vo. London, 1889. 
Ordinary Meeting, 18th March, 1890, at "Watford. 
P. M. Campbell, Esq., E.L.S., E.Z.S., etc., Vice-President, in 
the Chair. 
Mr. E. H. Hookey, H.A., Mr. C. J. Gilbert, E.G.S., and Mr. C. 
E. Jones, were elected Members of tbe Society. 
Miss Gertrude Coles, Tbe Shrubbery, Watford; Mr. Edward 
Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc., F.E.H.S., Eosebank, Berkhamsted; Mr. 
W. H. Syme, Ottawa House, Queen’s Eoad, Watford; and Mr. 
Charles Van Eaalt, Aldenham Abbey, Watford, were proposed for 
membership. 
Tbe following papers were read :— 
1. “ Meteorological Observations taken at Tbe Grange, St. Albans, 
during tbe year 1889.” By John Hopkinson, E.L.S., E.G.S., 
E.E.Met.Soc. ( Transactions, Vol. VI, p. 25.) 
2. “A Eecord of Water-level in a deep Chalk Well at Odsey 
Grange, Eoyston, 1878-1888. By H. George Eordbam, E.G.S. 
(. Transactions , Vol. VI, p. 31 ) 
Professor Attfieid, referring to tbe observation in Mr. Hopkin¬ 
son’s paper that tbe rainfall was less in 1889 than it bad been for 
tbe last seven years, said that tbe amount of rain which last year 
went to feed our wells, was also lower than it bad been for several 
