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"Wiltshire Natural History Society. Magazine. Yol. xxiv, No. 72. 8vo. 
Devizes, 1889. 
Yorkshire Geological and Polytechnic Society. Proceedings. New 
Series, vol. xi, part 2. 8vo. Halifax, 1890. 
PUECHASEB. 
Botany, Journal oe. New Series, vol. xxviii. 8vo. London, 1890. 
Cameron, P. A Monograph of the British Phytophagous Hymenoptera. Vol. 
iii. {Ray Society.) 8vo. London, 1890. 
Entomologist. Vol. xxiii. 8vo. London, 1890. 
Year Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. 
Seventh Annual Issue. 8vo. London, 1890. 
Zoologist. 3rd Series. Vol. xiv. 8vo. London, 1890. 
Oebinaey Meeting, 13th Maech, 1891, at Hitchin. 
William Ransom, Esq., F.S.A., F.L.S., Vice-President, in tlie 
Chair. 
Mr. Lewis Evans, Relswains, Hemel Hempstead; Dr. William 
Gruggen, L.R.C.P.E., 11, Montpellier Road, Ealing; Miss Bertha 
Innes, St. John’s Road, Watford; Mr. Frederick Lowe, Fulham, 
Tring; Mr. Arthur Hampton Longman, M.A., Shendish, Hemel 
Hempstead; and Mr. Edward Slocombe, Oxhey Warren, Watford, 
were proposed for membership of the Society. 
The following paper was read :— 
“ Water and its Circulation above and beneath the Surface of 
the Earth.” By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.Met.Soc., 
President. {Transactions, Vol. VI, p. 129.*) 
Maps, diagrams, and tables were exhibited in illustration of the 
paper. 
The meeting was held in conjunction with the Hitchin Natural 
History Club, on behalf of which Mr. William Hill proposed and 
Mr. J. H. Tuke seconded a similar resolution to that passed by the 
Hertfordshire Natural History Society on the 27th of January (see 
p. xlix), and it was carried unanimously. 
Oebinaey Meeting, 16th Maech, 1891, at Watfoed. 
John Hopkinson, Esq., F.L.S., F.G.S., etc., President, in the 
Chair. 
Mr. Robert P. Barclay, Mr. B. H. R. Daltry, Mr. Lewis Evans, 
Dr. William Gruggen, Mr. F. A. Hawks, Miss Bertha Innes, 
Mr. A. H. Longman, M.A., Mr. Frederick Lowe, Mr. G. Upton 
Robins, F.S.A., and Mr. Edward Slocombe, were elected Members 
of the Society. 
The following papers were read:— 
1. “*A Simple Method of taking Phenological Observations.” 
By Edward Mawley, F.R.Met.Soc., F.R.H.S. {Transactions, Vol. 
VI, p. 117.) 
* Incorporated in the paper on “ Water and Water-supply.” 
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