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PROCEEDINGS, 
of Injurious Insects/ have been of considerable value to agri¬ 
culturists. Miss Ormerod contributed several papers and notes 
to tbe ‘ Transactions ’ of this Society, of which she was elected 
an Honorary Member in the year 1881. Her death took place 
on Friday, 19th July, 1901, at her residence at St. Albans. 
Sir Henry Gilbert was born at Hull in the year 1817, and was 
educated at Glasgow University, University College, London, and 
Giessen University, where he graduated as Ph.D. He assumed 
control of the chemical laboratory at the Rothamsted Experimental 
Station, Harpenden, where he assisted Mr. (afterwards Sir) John 
Rennet Lawes in carrying out a valuable series of experiments, 
chiefly on the effects of various fertilizers upon the growth of 
plants. The results of these experiments were published chiefly 
in the well-known reports on the ‘ Field and other Experiments 
conducted on the Farm and in the Laboratory at Rothamsted/ 
which have been of great value to farmers and stock - breeders. 
Honorary degrees were conferred upon Sir Henry Gilbert by the 
Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, and 
for forty years he was a Fellow of the Royal Society. He 
died at Harpenden on Monday, 23rd December, 1901, at the 
advanced age of 84 years. He was a member of the Hertford¬ 
shire Natural History Society for 22 years. 
The census of the Society at the end of the years 1900 and 
1901 was as follows :— 
1900. 1901. 
Honorary Members.15 14 
Corresponding Members. 3 3 
Life Members. 44 44 
Annual Subscribers.120 115 
182 176 
The following papers or lectures have been read or delivered at 
Watford during the year :— 
Jan. 22.—Haunts and Habits of British Birds; by Bichard Kearton, F.Z.S. 
March 26.—Report on the Conference of Delegates to the British Association 
at Bradford in 1900 ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G-.S. 
-Notes on Lepidoptera observed in Hertfordshire in the Year 
1900; by A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.R.H.S. 
- Note on the appearance of a Foreign Beetle ( Diaxenes dendrobii) 
at Watford ; by A. C. Stawel-Stoyel. 
- Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the Year 1900 ; 
by Alan F. Crossman, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
April 23.—Introductory Remarks to a List of Works on the Geology of 
Hertfordshire ; by John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S. 
- Ostracoda from the Chara-Marl of Hitchin; by Frederick 
Chapman, A.L.S., F.R.M.S. 
- Further Note on the Palaeolithic Deposits at Hitchin; by 
Clement Reid, F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S. 
- Report on Phenological Phenomena observed in Hertfordshire 
during the Year 1900; by Edward Mawley, Sec.R.Met.Soc. 
- List of the Lepidoptera of Cheshunt and its Neighbourhood; 
by W. C. Boyd. 
Nov. 12.—Amongst the Birds in Hertfordshire ; by Alan F. Crossman, 
F.L.S., F.Z.S. 
Dec. 3.—Egypt, Ancient and Modern ; by A. Barton, Kent. 
