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PROCEEDINGS, 
The first three meetings were held in conjunction with the 
G-eologists’ Association, the fourth with the Barnet Natural 
History Society (which is affiliated to this Society), and the 
fifth with the Quekett Microscopical Club. The thanks of the 
Society are due to Sir W. S. Gilbert for receiving the members 
at Grim’s Dyke on the occasion of the meeting at Harrow Weald. 
The thirteenth volume of the present series of the Society’s 
4 Transactions ’ has been completed during the year by the issue 
of two parts containing 204 pages and 5 plates. The volume 
contains 352 pages with 11 plates and 6 text-illustrations. 
To the topography of the county the only contribution in it 
is the fourth instalment of the catalogue of Hertfordshire Maps, 
of 48 pages, completing Sir George Fordham’s memoir, by 
far the longest and most important in our ‘ Transactions.’ 
The meteorology and phenology of the county are discussed in 
four papers—the usual annual reports ; there are four on the 
geology, treating of the West Herts river-system, Palaeolithic 
beds at Hickmans worth, alluvial deposits at Watford, and 
Hertfordshire earthquakes; there is only one botanical paper, 
on witches’ brooms, partly local; there are eight contributions to 
the zoology of the county, being a short list of Coleoptera added 
to our fauna, an extensive list of Diptera, a paper on land and 
fresh-water Mollusca, one on albino Moles, and the usual annual 
reports on our Birds and Lepidoptera; and local archaeology is 
represented by a paper on Berkhamsted Castle. Of 21 papers 
in the volume there are thus 19 which give the results of local 
investigations, the two which do not being the Presidential 
Addresses. 
The ‘ Proceedings ’ cover a period of two years (October, 1905, 
to July, 1907), and include two annual reports of the British 
Association Conferences of Delegates of Corresponding Societies. 
The Society is indebted to Sir George Fordliam for a con¬ 
tribution of <£8 towards the cost of his catalogue of Hertfordshire 
Maps, and for three text-figures in the concluding part as 
well as illustrations in previous parts of his catalogue; to 
Mr. E. Mawley for a donation of £1 towards the cost of 
illustrating the paper on Berkhamsted Castle; to the late 
Sir John Evans for Plates II and III; to Mr. J. Saunders 
for the blocks used for Plates IV to VI and Fig. 1; and to 
Mr. Hopkinson for those used for Plates I, VII, X, and XI, 
and Fig. 6. 
Unless the decline in the membership and the consequent 
diminution in the income of the Society can be arrested, it will 
not be possible to continue the publication of the ‘ Transactions ’ 
on the same scale as hitherto. It is hoped, however, that the 
members will do their best to obtain recruits from among 
the large number of new residents in the county. 
The usual exchanges of publications with other Societies have 
been effected, and several separate works have been added to the 
Library during the year. 
