PICTORIAL SURVEY OF ESSEX. 5
Stratford, and at Beckton Road corner, Canning Town; sports
and games; holiday-making crowds in Epping Forest, and the
like will all be of immense interest to those who come after us.
Photographs of some of our slums will show our descendants
under what conditions many of us were forced to live, and
photographs of some of our local governing bodies at work may
not be without their interest.
If the Survey is to be a success, willing helpers will be needed
all over the County, working under the guidance and advice of a
central organisation, which might well be a small special
Committee of the Essex Field Club. Before many years have
passed, a collection of photographic records will be built up
which maybe of untold value to future students of history.
Nor need we confine ourselves to photographic records only.
Records of things that have passed away already remain in the
shape of prints and drawings; such might well find a permanent
home where they are easy of access in the Museum of the Club.
WORK IN THE FIELD AMONGST
THE FUNGI.
WITH ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF EPPING FOREST
MADE AT THE FUNGUS FORAY, 1902.
By M. C. COOKE, M.A., LL.D., A.L.S, &c.
IF I were to follow the practice of an eminent, and now
deceased, politician, I should name three courses, or class
my few observations under three heads, as
(I.) The work of to-day;
(II.) The work of the year; and
(III.) The work of the future.
All I may have to say would fall under one of these.
The work of to-day summarizes what has been accomplished
yesterday and to-day, with a sort of prologue, setting forth what
was done in Epping Forest by the South London Field Club on
the first Saturday in October, when the specimens submitted to
me for identification numbered 47, including one species which
I never before have seen collected in the County of Essex, and