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taken at Field Meetings, etc. Mr. W. J. Argent, views in Essex and Devonshire,
by himself. Mr. Gillham, views, principally of Wanstead and its neighbourhood,
by himself. Mr. Percy Lindley, a fine series of views of Epping Forest, taken
by the London Stereoscopic Company. Mr. Crouch, photographs of baleen of
whale; and sections of corals, etc., with photographs on opal glass of the Pink
and White Terraces of Rotomahana, New Zealand, destroyed in June, 1886, as
transparencies. Mr. F. W. Elliott, views of the Lake Districts ; and, by the
intervention of Mr. N. F. Robarts, Messrs. Mayall and Co. sent some very
beautiful specimens of their new process for colouring photographs. In noticing
the specimens exhibited, Mr. Gillham, Mr. Wire, Mr. Fitch, and others, hoped
that attention would be given to the proposal that the Club should collect for
preservation as complete a series of Essex photographs as possible—the work was
one in which almost every member could afford aid. The usual conversazione
brought the meeting to a close.
Ordinary Meeting, Saturday, December 29th, 1888.
The Ninety-sixth Ordinary Meeting was held in the Public Hall, Loughton, Mr.
E. A. Fitch, President, in the chair.
The following were elected members of the Club :—Rev. J. W. Mills, M.A.,
Rev. L. Newcomen Prance, M.A., and Mr. G. E. Sibbald.
In accordance with Rules III. and IV., nominations of new members of
Council and Officers for 1889 were made in view of the ninth annual meeting in
January.
Prof. Meldola exhibited three moths—Nemeophila russula, Agrotis singula
(porphyrea) and Noctua glareosa—from Epping Forest; the former taken in 1888,
and the two latter some years ago. He remarked that the two first were
decidedly heath-loving species, and it was interesting to note their occurrence in
the forest in connection with the view that parts of Epping Forest were formerly
covered with heath. The existence of Camps on the forest appeared to favour this
idea.
Mr. W. Crouch exhibited a female specimen of the "Emperor Moth" (Saturnia
carpini) bred from a larva which he found feeding on heather, at an altitude of
about 2,000 feet, nearly at the top of Shutlingslowe, Cheshire, one of the highest
peaks of the Pennine chain ; also a prepared specimen of the larva from another
locality, and drawing of the hairy pink spots on the caterpillar taken from the
Shutlingslowe example. The interest attaching to the specimen was the great
altitude at which it was obtained. On the same occasion and at about the same
height he gathered a small piece of the somewhat rare white heather (Calluna
vulgaris, var. alba).
Prof. Meldola remarked that he thought Saturnia carpini had been recorded
from equal or higher altitudes in some parts of Europe. Mr. Fitch said that
he found the larva commonly at Maldon, where it feed principally on bramble,
and Mr. W. Cole said that it was sometimes found in the forest districts.
Mr. Crouch referred to the beautiful woodcut of the Goshawk in the December
part of Mr. Howard Saunder's "Illustrated Manual of British Birds." The
drawing was taken from Mr. Mann's goshawk "Shadow of Death," mentioned
in the report of the Bishop's Stortford meeting (ante page 208). Also to a paper
by our member the Rev. E. S. Dewick, F.G.S., in the "Archaeological Journal"
(vol. xlv.) on the discovery of the remains of an "Ankerhold" (recluse cell) on the
north side of the chancel of St. Martin's Church, Chipping Ongar.