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PROCEEDINGS, 
5. “ List of Works on the Geology of Hertfordshire, 1884-1900.” 
By John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R. Met. Soc., Assoc. Inst. C.E. 
( Transactions , Yol. XI, pp. 87-104.) [Introduction only read.] 
Field Meeting, 11th Mat, 1901. 
THING. 
The Tring Zoological Museum and Tring Park were on this 
occasion visited for the third time by the kind permission of Lord 
Rothschild and his son the Honourable Walter Rothschild.* The 
meeting was under the direction of Dr. Lones, and the members, 
numbering twenty-seven, were conducted over the Museum by 
the principal curator, Mr. E. Hartert. Some came by train, some 
drove from St. Albans, and others cycled from Watford. 
The Museum is in great part devoted to the exhibition of the 
larger Mammalia, amongst which were noticed zebras and 
antelopes, and the fiercer animals such as the lion, tiger, leopard, 
jaguar, and puma, and a lion-tiger hybrid. The Vertebrata are 
also represented by numerous birds, reptiles, and fishes, amongst 
the last-named a gigantic tarpan, one of the herring tribe, from 
Florida, attracting attention. 
The only object of local interest noticed was a large nest of the 
hornet, Vespa crabro, with many specimens of the insect, from 
Watford. The hornet’s nest is much more fragile than that of 
other species of Vespa, the wasps making their nests of a tenacious 
paper which they form out of the fibre of living trees, while the 
hornet contents itself with rotten wood, out of which it makes 
a very friable, russet-coloured paper. 
The Museum consists of two departments, exhibition galleries, 
and a private collection for purposes of study, the source of a 
great part of the Hon. Walter Rothschild’s splendid publication, 
‘ Naturae Hovitates,’ to which the Society subscribes. Certain 
portions of this collection were examined, including the skins of 
foreign birds and a large series of foreign butterflies and moths, 
Dr. K. Jordan, the second curator, showing the party some butter¬ 
flies and moths of immense size and dazzling brilliancy obtained 
chiefly from Africa and Hew Guinea. 
On leaving the Museum Mr. Hartert conducted the party 
through Tring Park, where many fine deer, some emus, and a 
large number of kangaroos, including young ones, were seen. 
Tea was then partaken of at the “Rose and Crown,” after 
which some of the members left and others drove, by way of 
Drayton Beauchamp, to the Wilstone, Tringford, and Marsworth 
Reservoirs, on which numerous water-birds were seen. 
* For accounts of the two previous visits see 1 Trans. Herts Nat. Hist. Soc.,’ 
Yol. VIII, p. xxxiii (1895), and Vol. IX, p. lxxiii (1898). 
