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PROCEEDINGS, 
The Society is deeply indebted to the Watford Urban District 
Council for the free use of their Council Chamber for meetings 
and of the Old Board Boom for the accommodation of the 
Library, and to the Committee of the Herts County Museum for 
the use of the Museum for the meetings at St. Albans. 
280th Ordinary Meeting, 26th April, 1909, at Watford. 
Canon A. M. Norman, D.C.L., F.B.S., etc., President, in 
the Chair. 
Mr. H. F. Harper was elected a Member of the Society. 
Field Meeting, 22nd May, 1909. 
THE GBOVE, WATFOBD. 
The members assembled at the principal entrance to Grove 
Park, and, under the direction of Mr. Hopkinson, with the kind 
permission of the Earl of Clarendon, visited the gardens at 
The Grove and also the Temple of Pan Woods. 
Crossing the Park, the gardens were first entered, and the 
visitors were conducted round them by Mr. Harris, the head 
gardener, who also showed the greenhouses, pointing out in both 
the many rare and choice plants. 
The wood between the gardens and the high road was then 
passed through, and the bluebell was found to be in full flower, 
spreading here and there beautiful carpets of blue. The public 
field-path leading through Cartpath Wood to Sarratt was then 
taken so far as the wood, where it was left for the private path 
to the Temple of Pan and Juniper Hill, the members being here 
accompanied by Lord Clarendon’s head keeper, Mr. Bamford. 
The Temple of Pan is an eighteenth century summer-house, 
and is quaintly decorated with the skulls, bones, and teeth of 
goats, while bluebells in profusion and other wild flowers grow 
all around it. 
On the return walk to Watford the members and their friends 
were entertained at tea by Mr. and Mrs. Hopkinson at their 
residence, Weetwood. 
Field Meeting, 12th June, 1909. 
COLNEY HEATH. 
This meeting was arranged for the investigation of the marsh¬ 
lands and heathery ground of Colney Heath, under the direction 
of Mr. E. J. Salisbury, B.Sc., F.L.S. The day being thoroughly 
wet the party consisted of only the director and two other 
members, who, however, carried out the programme, walking 
from Smallford Station to Colney Heath and back. They noted 
about 130 species of plants in flower. 
