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be mentioned, and partly on account of the fact that as I have
found the agamic generation in Epping Forest it is highly
probable that the sexual generation is to be found there also,
and a description will, therefore, be of use in distinguishing
these galls.
In the following account I have kept the generic name of
the agamic generation for the sexual generation also. In this
respect I have followed Cameron, but in the case of the specific
names I have, with a few exceptions, retained those used by Dr.
Adler.
(To be continued.)
NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
Destructive Storm in Essex.—In connection with the detailed
and exhaustive report given by Mr. William Cole in the Essex Naturalist
(vol. x., 112-129) of the great storm of June 24th, 1897, which wrought such
havoc in certain but happily restricted districts in Essex, it will be of interest
to recall the account given by Mr. Jacob George Strutt, the artist in the
Magazine of Natural History for 1833 (pp. 103-107) of a similar storm which
occurred in Thorndon Park, near Brentwood, on the 12th of October, 1831.
The main part of the narrative there reprinted was taken from a Chelmsford
paper, and it was accompanied by a woodcut of a scene from the midst of the
havoc drawn upon wood by Mr. Strutt, which is here reproduced. I quote
some paragraphs from the narrative ;—" On the evening of Wednesday, the
12th inst. (October, 1831), a destructive hurricane ravaged a considerable
portion of the park of Thorndon Hall, the seat of Lord Petre, near Brent-
wood. The blast came on about eight o'clock, and in less than four minutes
the work of havoc was complete. It appears that the wind came from the
south-west, and entered the park near the Lion's Lodge, where it threw down
a small portion of the paling. It then traversed the park in a varying sweep
of about 150 yards' breadth. It is difficult to form any idea of the manner in
which it took its course, as it has made many singular selections of spots and
single trees. The line of desolation is not an uninterrupted one; in many
places, a large breadth of trees has escaped unhurt, while others, apparently
heltered by them, have been shivered or torn up by the roots. In some
groups of three or four trees, one of the least exposed has shared in the ruin
while its more exposed neighbours have not lost a leaf. On entering the park
at the Lion's Lodge, on the west or Warley side, the eye is immediately
attracted to the right hand by several oaks, 60 feet long, which have been
torn up by the roots and to which are adhering masses of earth, 14 feet in
length, and from three to four feet in thickness ..... The stems of
many trees are off within a few feet of the earth, some at the height of two or
three feet, others at a greater height; and one elm has been severed at about
20 feet from the ground, 15 feet of the stump having half its body torn away