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heading "A Visit to an Essex Gullery." Mr. Fitch had recently revisited the
place in company with Mr. Miller Christy and Mr. G. E. Lodge :—
Mr. Fitch proposed to give some further details of the Tollesbury Gullery at
a future time.
The Secretary called attention to a paper by Prof. Boulger, on the Drainage
of the Forest, which appeared in "Nature Notes, the Selborne Society's
Magazine" for March, 1890. He thought that, in the main, Prof. Boulger's
remarks expressed the opinion of those best able to judge of the evil effects of the
draining which was going on in parts of the Forest. The paper had been
reprinted, and he laid a number of copies on the table for distribution.
Mr. A. P. Wire read "Memoir of John Brown, F.G.S., of Stanway," and in
illustration, exhibited photographs of Brown's house and tomb, and also an
enlarged portrait kindly drawn by Mr. George Day from the only photograph of
John Brown in existence.
Remarks on the paper were made by the President, the Rev. W. C. Howell,
and Prof. Boulger, and a vote of thanks was returned to Mr. Wire for his paper.
Mr. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., read a paper "On the Undulations of the Chalk
in Essex," illustrating his remarks by a large wall map prepared by himself.
Remarks on the paper were made by Prof. Boulger.
Mr. Dalton also read "Notes on the Geological Ramble in connection with
the Coggeshall Excursion" (printed ante, pp. 79-82), and exhibited the following
specimens in illustration thereof:—Deposit from Dr. Taylor's chalybeate spring
at Bocking (ante, p. 80) ; "Kettle-ooiite," formed by the same water in boiling ;
Flint implement from Post-glacial gravel, North End ; Calcined stones from
ancient fire-bed, Felstead; Shelly sand in connection with the same : Shells of
Helix rufescens, H. lamellata, and Pupa ringens from marl and peat near Hostages
Farm ; Vivianitic alluvium from Maldon.
A note "On the Occurrence of Cyclostoma elegans in a living state at Felstead"
(printed ante, p. 92), was communicated by Mr. J. French through Mr. Dalton,
illustrated by several dead, and one living specimen, and by a sample of travertine
from the minute area occupied by the mollusc.1
Votes of thanks were returned to Mr. Dalton and Mr. French, and the meeting
terminated. Many of the members went home from the Theydon Bois station :
others walked through the Forest to Loughton and Buckhurst Hill.
Field Meeting at Walton-on-Naze, Saturday, June 7th, 1890.2
The Club paid a visit to Walton on September 14th last (see report in ESSEX
Naturalist, vol. iii., pp. 230-32) under the direction of Dr. J. E. Taylor, but
1 Mr. French writes that Cyclostoma, went into hybernation at the end of September, not-
withstanding the delicious weather of the first weeks of October.
2 The Editor is largely indebted to Mr. T. V. Holmes for the geological portions of this
report, and also to the excellent account of the meeting which appeared in the "East Anglian
Daily Times."