SESSION 1910-1911. 
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295th Ordinary Meeting, 14th March, 1911, at St. Albans. 
Arthur E. Ekins, E.C.S., F.I.C., in the Chair. 
Miss E. M. Haines, London Orphan Asylum, Watford, was 
proposed for membership of the Society. 
Mr. A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., exhibited a series of butterflies from 
Jamaica, and made remarks on their relationship to other species 
on the American continent. 
The Key. E. Wright exhibited a nest of the Indian tailor-bird 
(Orthotomus sutorius), pointing out the method of constructing 
the outer envelope by the stitching of a leaf with silk fibre, and 
alluding to the mimetic resemblance the nest bears to that of 
the red ant. 
On behalf of the Committee of the County Museum there 
were exhibited a little auk ( Mergulus alle ) which was killed by 
striking telegraph wires at Kinnesbourne G-reen near Harpenden 
in November, 1910 ; and a specimen of the stone-curlew 
((Edicnemus crepitans) killed at Colney Heath in the autumn 
of the same year. 
Mr. Charles Oldham, E.Z.S., exhibited a Daubenton’s bat 
(.Myotis Daubentoni) taken at Abbot’s Langley, and specimens 
of Nycteribia pedicularia, a parasite which was found upon it. 
(See Transactions, Yol. XIV, pp. 290 and 300.) 
The following lecture was delivered :— 
“ The Work of a Fishery Cruiser in the Northern Sea.” By 
Arthur Earland. 
The lecture was illustrated by a large number of lantern- 
slides, and dealt with the scientific work of the Scottish Fishery 
Board, the scenery of the Faroes and Shetlands, and the 
conditions under which the whaling industry is now prosecuted 
in our northern seas. 
296th Ordinary Meeting, 27th March, 1911, at Watford. 
G. W. Lamplugh, F.B.S., F.G.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Miss E. M. Haines was elected a Member of the Society. 
Mr. Edward Popple, Sunnymead, Church Street, Berkhamsted, 
was nominated for membership. 
A vote of condolence with the relatives of the late Dr. John 
Attfield and the late Mr. W. Lepard Smith was passed, in 
moving which Mr. Hopkinson referred to the services rendered 
by them to the Society and to science generally, stating that 
both were Trustees of the Society, that Dr. Attfield, who was 
formerly Professor of Practical Chemistry to the Pharmaceutical 
Society, was a past President, and had contributed papers to 
the Society besides his two Anniversary Addresses, and that 
Mr. Lepard Smith was one of the original members. 
