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the sand. West of the farm-house a large gravel-pit was then 
examined, the gravel being found to consist of flint-pebbles, 
many of them black, in a sandy matrix. It was exposed to 
a depth of 4 ft. Another pit, near the descent to the new 
railway-station, showed pebbly gravel, with very large flints on 
the top of the Chalk. This was the last section examined. 
Tea was served in the Pavilion, where Mr. J. P. Markes, 
Managing Director of the Golf Club, exhibited some old horse¬ 
shoes, Eoman pottery, etc., found in the course of the construction 
of the links. 
290th Ordinary Meeting, 26th April, 1910, at Watford. 
Edward Mawley, F.E.Met. Soc., F.E.H.S., V.M.H., in the 
Chair. 
Mr. F. De Ath, Holme Lea, Boreham Wood, was proposed 
for membership of the Society. 
Mr. Henry Kidner, F.G.S., exhibited and remarked upon an 
Echinoderm, Clypeaster egyptiacus, from the Miocene rocks of 
Egypt. 
The following papers were read :— 
1. “ Eeport on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hert¬ 
fordshire during the year 1909.” By Edward Mawlev, 
F.E.Met. Soc., F.E.H.S. (Transactions, Yol. XIV,pp. 150-156.) 
2. “ The Weather of the year 1909 in Hertfordshire.” By John 
Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G-.S., F.E.Met.Soc., etc. ( Transactions , 
Yol. XIY, pp. 161-176.) 
Diagrams were exhibited in illustration of the paper. 
3. “ Notes on the Geology of the neighbourhood of Watford.” 
By Henry Kidner, F.Gr.S. ( Transactions , Yol. XIY, pp. 179-180.) 
4. “ Chalk Fossils from Hunton Bridge.” By G. J. Eoberts. 
(Transactions , Yol. XIY, pp. 189-192.) 
5. “ Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the 
year 1909.” By William Bickerton, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ( Trans¬ 
actions , Yol. XIY, pp. 193-208.) 
6. “ Eeport on the Conference of Delegates to the 
British Association in London in 1909.” By John 
Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.Gr.S., F.Z.S., etc. 
As the British Association met this year in Canada it was 
decided that the Conference of Delegates should meet later in 
the year in London, and the meetings were held on the mornings 
of the 25th and 26th of October in the Apartments of the 
Geological Society, Burlington House. On the 24tli the Dele¬ 
gates visited Kew Gardens, on the afternoon of the 25th the 
Natural History Museum, and on that of the 26th the Gardens 
of the Zoological Society, in each case under able guides. 
The Chairman of the Conference, Prof. A. C. Haddon, F.E.S., 
presided at each meeting. 
