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now engaged in investigating the facts as to damage in various
districts, and their report may be expected to present features of
considerable interest. In the meantime all will sympathise
with the philanthropic side of the good work thus undertaken,
and we beg to call attention of all our readers to the announce-
ment of the County Fund printed on the wrapper of the present
part of the Essex Naturalist.
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
FIELD MEETING IN EPPING FOREST.
Saturday, April 10th, 1897.
THIS Meeting was mainly for the observation of the Fresh-water Algae
and the Mosses, and was under the direction of Mr. E. D. Marquand
(of the Royal Herbarium, Kew), who was one of the conductors at a similar
meeting in March last year. We had also the pleasure of the company of
Mr. H. Fisher, Naturalist to the Jackson-Harmsworth Arctic Expedition.
The incidents of the meeting call for no special remark ; a most pleasant
ramble was taken from Theydon Bois, through the Theydon Thickets, Genesis
Slade, and St. Thomas's quarters, plants and insects being noted. At about
six o'clock tea was taken at the "Wake Arms,'' and afterwards an Ordinary
Meeting (the 168th) was held, Prof. R. Meldola, Vice-President, in the
chair.
Mr. Marquand then delivered a lecture, intended as an introduction to
the study of the Fresh-water Alga;, of which a full abstract will be published
in the next part of the Essex Naturalist.
Mr. Marquand's lecture was illustrated by diagrams and specimens, and
the Secretary exhibited some large diagrams of Freshwater Algae presented by
Dr. Cooke, as well as the copy of Dr. Cooke's fine work on the Freshwater
Algae of Britain, recently presented to the Club by Prof. Meldola.
A short discussion ensued, and Mr. Marquand was cordially thanked for
his interesting address.
The members of the party then made their way to Theydon Bois or
Loughton Stations, en route for home.
FIELD MEETING AT HOCKLEY AND RAYLEIGH,
ESSEX.
Saturday, June 19TH, 1897.
Conductor : T. V. Holmes, Esq., F.G.S. (Vice-President).
A very delightful meeting was held on this afternoon, under Mr.
Holmes' direction, and a goodly number assembled, in spite of the deterrent
fact that it was the eve of the Jubilee and many members were bent on
seeing the troops march through the East End. The members travelled by
the G.E. Railway, arriving at the village of Hockley at about 1.20 p.m.
The object of the excursion was to give members of the Club an oppor-
tunity of seeing a part of Essex hitherto unvisited, and the scenery of which