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The greater number of the party drove over to Bigod's Farm, near
Dunmow, to visit the Village Technical School, established there by Lady
Warwick, who accompanied the party, and explained this unique experiment
in practical education. The celebrated Village Art Needlework Settlement
and Laundry were also inspected. The President spoke of it as the most
interesting and most hopeful village school that he knew of, and this
appeared to be the conclusion of the numerous educational experts present.
Returning to Easton Lodge, tea was served on the lawn, and after being
photographed, the large party took leave of their kind hostess, and drove
through the park under the guidance of Mr. Lister, the head gardener, to the
remarkable "Shakesperian Garden," so tastefully devised by her ladyship, its
immense sundial with its motto of living box Les heures heureuses ne comptent pas,
and its countless Shakesperian plants, each appropriately labelled with a
quaint and pretty plaque made of Hedingham ware.1 The picturesque
"Stone Hall" in the garden—a museum of mediaeval domestic relics and
motto crockery was also entered and inspected, and then the long drive over
the Stene-street back to Bishops Stortford in the cool of the evening con-
cluded a most enjoyable and successful Field Meeting.
1 The garden has been described in a very entertaining way by Lady Warwick, under
the title of "My Plaisaunce," with some charming photographs, in The Lady's Realm for
November, 1896.
NOTES ON THE MOLLUSCA (POST-PLIOCENE
AND RECENT) OF FELSTEAD, ESSEX.
By A. S. KENNARD and B. B. WOODWARD, F.L.S., F.G.S.
THROUGH the kindness of Mr. J. French, who forwarded
the whole of his specimens for examination, it is now
possible to furnish a list of both the Fossil and Recent Mollusca
from this locality (see ante p. 93) ; but since, unfortunately, no record
had been kept of the beds from which the former came, there is
still much to be added to our knowledge of the deposits. Mr.
French's list (Essex Naturalist, vol. iii., pp. 12-13) contained
forty-two species as occurring in a fossil state, but we have only
been able to identify thirty-two species, viz. :—1
Vitrea crystallina Vallonia pulchella
,, nitidula Pupa anglica
,, pura ,, cylindracea
,, radiatula Vertigo antivertigo
,, nitida ,, substriata
,, fulva ,, pusilla
Pyramidula rotundata ,, angustior
1 The names are those of the list of British Non-Marine Mollusca inserted at p. 108
of the present volume of the Essex Naturalist.—Ed.