session 1901 - 1902 . 
XXXI 
The following Field Meetings were held during the year:— 
May 11.—Tring Museum and Tring Park. 
-25.—Ayot Green and Brocket Park. 
June 1.—The Grove, Watford. 
-15.—Bushey and Stanmore Common. 
-22.—Great Gaddesden, Nettle den, and Frithsden. 
July 6.—Berkhamsted. 
These Field Meetings were very well attended, the average 
number of 'members and their friends present being about 26. 
The meeting on May 25th was held in conjunction with the 
St. Albans Photographic Society. 
The Society is indebted to the Hon. Walter Rothschild for 
permission to visit his Zoological Museum at Tring on Saturday, 
May 11th, and to Mr. E. Hartert and Dr. K. Jordan for showing 
the members over the Museum; to Lord Rothschild for permission 
to visit Tring Park ; to the Right Hon. the Earl of Clarendon 
for permission to visit his private grounds and woods at The 
Grove ; to Miss Baylee for permission to inspect the Museum at 
St. Margaret’s, Bushey, and Miss Hibbert-Ware for conducting 
the members through the Museum; and to Mrs. Brightwen for 
permission to visit her private grounds at The Grove, Stanmore 
Common. The Society is also indebted to the kind hospitality of 
Mrs. Hopkinson, Mrs. Crossman, and Mrs. Mawley at the field 
meetings at The Grove, Watford, Frithsden, and Berkhamsted. 
It is with great regret that the Council has to report the loss 
of the services of Mr. Alan F. Crossman, who has done excellent 
work for several years as Recorder of Birds for the county. 
Mr. Crossman resigned in consequence of his leaving England 
for Western Australia. 
The tenth volume of the present series of the Society’s 
* Transactions ’ has been completed and the eleventh volume 
has been commenced, three parts of the former, containing 
92 pages, and two of the latter, containing 64 pages and 6 plates, 
having been published during the year. All the papers in the 
tenth volume record the results of local investigation. The 
Meteorology and Phenology of Hertfordshire are discussed in ten 
papers, nine being the usual annual reports on the meteorology, 
rainfall, and phenology of the county, and one recording some 
effects of a severe hailstorm; to the Geology six papers are 
devoted, three being Presidential Addresses, one, partly meteoro¬ 
logical, treating of the Chadwell Spring and Hertfordshire Bourne, 
and two treating of superficial deposits (the Hitchin Lake-bed and 
the Gravels, etc., of West Herts); to the Botany of Herts, Beds, 
and Bucks there are three contributions (two on the Mycetozoa and 
one on Parasitic Flowering Plants) ; in Entomology there is a 
report on the Lepidoptera of West Herts and a note on the observa¬ 
tion of Leaf-cutting Bees at Watford ; Ornithology is represented 
by a list of the Birds of Hertfordshire and three annual reports on 
birds observed in the county; and finally, Topography has received 
attention, for the first time for several years, in a paper on the 
