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Excerpt from Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, Vol. 1: October, 1879, to July, 1881 There was one other kind of work that he might suggest, and that was tracing to the right plants names which had become obsolete. In Izaak Walton's Complete Angler the flower culverkeys was twice mentioned, and the question as.to what it was had recently been asked in Science Gossip.' He would therefore suggest that an endeavour should be made to find out what flower culverkeys was. Referring, in conclusion, to natural-history Observation in general, Mr. Croft said that a very common question was, What is the good of it? The answer to that question might well occupy an entire evening, but he might briefly say that the study of Natural History sharpened the power of Observation to an extent hardly to be believed by those who had not tried it, gave a perfectly harmless and very inexpensive form of recreation. Alwa S accessible, and excited a new interest in, and a greater power Of appreciation o the marvellous works of our Creator. After some remarks by Mr. Henry Gilbertson, who advocated fern -spores being sown in moist places in the roads and lanes of Hertfordshire, the Chairman announced that a microscopic -object cabinet, similar to the Society's cabinet at Watford, had been purchased for Hertford, and would be kept at the rooms of the Literary and. Scientific Institution, where it would be at all times open to the inspection Of the members. The meeting then resolved itself into a conversazione, and the remainder of the evening was devoted to the study of microscopic objects, and the comparison, with the usual test-objects, of the highest powers of the various microscopes in the room. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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