HERTFORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY 
AND FIELD CLUB. 
The objects of tbe Society are:—1. The investigation of the Meteorology, 
Geology, Botany, Zoology, and Pre-historic Archaeology of the County of Hertford. 
2. The publication of the results of such investigation made by its Members. 
3. The dissemination amongst its Members of information on Natural History, 
Microscopy, and Photography. 4. The formation of a Library of works on 
Natural History, and of a Museum illustrative of the Geology, Botany, and 
Zoology of the County (the Vertebrata excepted). 5. The discouragement of 
the practice of removing rare plants from the localities of which they are 
characteristic, and of exterminating rare birds, fish, and other animals. 
The head-quarters of the Society are at the Watford Public Library. Here 
the Society has a Library of over 1200 volumes of Scientific Works, which are 
lent free to Members; and also a Museum, the chief feature of which is the 
Herbarium of the authors of the first Flora of the County, Messrs. Coleman 
and Webb. 
Evening meetings of the Society are held at the Watford Public Library at 
least once a month during the Winter and Spring. Evening meetings are also 
held • occasionally at St. Albans, Hertford, Ware, and other places. Field 
meetings are held during the Spring and Summer in various parts of the County. 
Members pay an Entrance Fee of 10s., and an Annual Subscription of 10s., 
for which they may, if preferred, compound by a payment of £5. Ladies are 
eligible for election. 
Donations to the Library, and letters relating thereto, should be addressed 
to the Librarian, W. B. Carter, Busliey Hall Boad, Watford; and to the 
Museum, to the Curator, A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., The Hollies, St. Albans. Sub¬ 
scriptions, etc., are payable to the Treasurer, John Weall, 38, High Street, 
Watford. 
Members may obtain any of the publications of the Society, postage free, by 
remitting the price to the Assistant Secretary, H. J. Wardale, 3, Adela Terrace, 
Watford. They may also be obtained through any bookseller. 
Forms of proposal for Membership, and any further information, may be 
obtained on application to either of the Honorary Secretaries 
JOHN MOBISON, M.D., F.G.S., St. Albans. 
F. M. CAMPBELL, F.L.S., etc., Bose Hill, Hoddesdon. 
