session 1900-1901. 
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Purchased. 
Botany, Journal or. Yol. xxxviii. 8vo. London, 1900. 
Home Counties Magazine. Yol. ii. 8vo. London, 1900. 
McIntosh, Prof. W. C. British Annelids. Part 2. {Ray Society.) Fo. 
London, 1900. 
Nature Notes. Yol. xi. (Selborne Society .) 8vo. London, 1900. 
Novitates Zoologicje. Yol. yii. 8vo. Tring, 1900. 
Year-book, of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. 
. . . 1899. 8vo. London, 1900. 
Zoologist. 4th Series. Yol. iv. 8vo. London, 1900. 
220th Ordinary Meeting, 26th March, 1901, at YYatford. 
Alan F. Crossman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Yice-President, 
in the Chair. 
Mr. Charles Worte was elected a Member of the Society. 
Mr. John Hunt, Melrose, St. John’s Eoad, Watford, was pro¬ 
posed for membership. 
The following papers were read:— 
1. “ Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire in the Year 
1900.” By A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.H.S. ( Transactions, Yol. XI, 
pp. 43-45.) 
Lepidoptera taken in the neighbourhood of Watford in 1900 
were exhibited by Mr. Arthur Cottam, and specimens of the 
Camberwell beauty ( Vanessa antiopa ) taken at St. Albans in 
1900 were lent for exhibition by Mr. J. Tomlin, in illustration of 
the paper. 
2. “Note on the Appearance of a Foreign Beetle (. Diaxenes 
dendrobii) at Watford.” By Aubrey C. Stawel-Stoyel. ( Trans¬ 
actions, Yol. XI, p. 46.) 
The author exhibited specimens of the beetle. 
3. “Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the Year 
1900.” By Alan F. Crossman, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 
(Transactions , Yol. XI, pp. 47-52.) 
4. “Eeport on the Conference of Delegates to the British 
Association at Bradford in 1900.” By John Hopxinson, F.L.S., 
F.G.S., Assoc.Inst. C.E. 
The representation of a Provincial Scientific Society at the 
annual meetings of the British Association confers upon that 
Society certain advantages and carries with it specific obligations. 
The Societies thus represented receive the Eeports of the Association; 
their publications are catalogued in those Eeports, the titles of the 
more important papers published by them, and especially those 
which give the results of local investigation, being indexed; and 
their Delegate, if not a member of the General Committee of the 
Association, becomes so ex officio during the meeting which he 
attends. In return each Society represented has to contribute 
