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PROCEEDINGS, 
Five Ordinary Meetings were held at Watford during the year, 
at which the following papers and lectures were delivered, in 
addition to the Annual Address of the President, Mr. 13. Daydon 
Jackson, Sec. Linn. Soc., on “ Hertfordshire Naturalists and their 
Work,” delivered at the Anniversary Meeting on March 1st:— 
Feb. 3.—Cheese Mites and some other Mites; hy John Hopkinson, 
F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S, 
- On the Occurrence of Sir ex noctilio and Sir ex gigas in Hertford¬ 
shire ; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 
- Notes on some Hertfordshire Mammalia ; by A. E. Gibbs, 
F.L.S., etc. 
-- Report on the Conference of Delegates to the British Association 
at Belfast in 1902 ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., etc. 
March 29.—Some Observations on the exceptional Rainfall and on other 
Meteorological Phenomena in Hertfordshire in 1903 ; by 
John Hopkinson, Yice-Pres. R. Met. Soc., Assoc. Inst. C.E. 
- The Climbing and Twining Plants of the South Midlands ; by 
James Saunders, A.L.S. 
- Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire in the year 
1903 ; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 
- Coleoptera new to the Hertfordshire Fauna ; by A. E. Gibbs, 
F.L.S., etc. 
April 19.—Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertfordshire 
during the year 1903 ; by Edward Mawlev, F.R. Met. Soc , 
F.R.H.S. 
- Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the year 1903 ; 
by William Bickerton. 
- Report on the Conference of Delegates to the British Association 
at Southport in 1903 ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., 
Yice-Pres. R. Met. Soc. 
Nov. 2.—The Gravels of Hertfordshire ; by A. E. Salter, D.Sc., F.G.S. 
Dec. 14.—Deep-Sea Soundings ; by Arthur Earland, Sec. Quekett Micros. 
Club. 
The following Field Meetings, which were well attended, were 
held during the year :— 
April 16.— Bourne End. 
May 28.—Jordans and the Chalfonts. 
June .4.—Tring and the Chiltern Hills. 
,, 18.—St. Albans. 
An interesting visit was also paid to the Linnean Society’s 
Apartments at Burlington House on March 29, when the President, 
Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, Sec. Linn. Soc., kindly showed the 
Portraits, Personal Belies, Collections, and Library of Linnaeus 
in the possession of that Society. 
Three parts of the twelfth volume of the present series of the 
Society’s ‘ Transactions ’ have been published during the year, 
containing 136 pages, with 22 illustrations in the text. 
The usual exchanges of publications have been made, several 
publications of learned Societies having been added to the Library. 
The existing arrangements for storing the Library in the old 
Board Boom of the Watford Urban District Council continue, 
however, to be very inconvenient. The books are practically 
inaccessible, and very little use is made of them by Members. 
