session 1903 - 1904 . 
XXIX 
The census of the Society at the end of the years 1902 and 1903 
was as follows :— 
1902. 1903. 
Honorary Members ..14 12 
Corresponding Members. 4 5 
Life Members. 44 42 
Annual Subscribers.106 98 
168 157 
The following papers or lectures have been read or delivered at 
Watford during the year :— 
Feb. 24.—On some Fossiliferous Post-Tertiary Beds exposed at the Gas 
Works, Watford; by T. E. Lones, M.A., LL.D., B.Sc. 
- A Review of Hertfordshire Ornithology; by William Bickerton. 
- Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the year 1902 ; 
by William Bickerton. 
March 24.—Anniversary Address—Sun-dials and their Mottoes ; by the 
President, Lewis Evans, F.S.A., F.R.A.S. 
April 21.—Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire in the year 
1902 ; by Arthur E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 
- Some Hertfordshire Scale-insects ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., 
F.R.M.S., Sec. Ray Soc., etc. 
-—— Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertfordshire 
during the year 1902 ; by Edward Mawley, Sec. R.Met.Soc., 
F.R.H.S., Sec. Rose Soc. 
- Flowering Plants observed around Busliey in 1902 ; by Miss A. 
Hibbert-Ware. 
Nov. 18.—Notes on the Habits of some of our Lepidopterous Insects; 
part 2, the Larger Moths ; by Arthur Cottam, F.R.A.S. 
Dec. 16.—A Journey amongst the Andes of Upper Peru; by Arthur W. 
Hill, M.A. 
Mr. Hopkinson contributed to the ‘ Transactions ’ his usual 
annual reports on the Rainfall and on Meteorological Observations 
in Hertfordshire in 1902 without their being brought before 
a meeting of the Society, in accordance with Rule XVIII. 
The following Field Meetings were held during the year :— 
May 16.—Chalfont St. Giles. 
- 23.—Dunstable Downs. 
June 27.—Kew Gardens. 
The meeting on the 23rd of May was held in conjunction with 
the Geologists’ Association. 
The eleventh volume of the present series of the Society’s 
‘Transactions’ has been completed during the year by the issue 
of four parts, containing 128 pages and one plate. An important 
contribution to the topography of the county, the first two parts of 
a catalogue of Hertfordshire Maps, occupies a large portion of the 
volume (72 pages, 7 plates). The Meteorology and Phenology of 
the county are discussed in ten papers, eight being annual reports, 
one treating of the climate, and one of recent storms and floods ; 
to the Geology three papers are devoted, one being a third list of 
works on the geology of Hertfordshire, covering the period 1884 to 
1900, and two treatiug of the Hitchin palaeolithic lake-bed, while 
a paper on the shrinkage of 'the River Lea combines meteorology 
