38 NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
A report by Dr. M. C. Cooke on the scientific results of the Fungus Foray
on October 17th and 18th last, was read, and thanks were voted to the author.
This paper is printed in the present part (ante p. 5).
Delegate's Report.—Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S., F.G.S., gave viva voce,
his report as Delegate of the Club at the Conference of Local Scientific Societies
at the British Association meeting at Belfast. The substance of Mr. Whitaker's
remarks will be printed in the E. N.
The President proposed that the thanks of the Club should be given to Mr.
Whitaker for his services as Delegate at Belfast, and for the report he had just
made.
Some observations on the value of Geological Photographs were made by Mr.
Primrose McConnell, and Mr. Briscoe announced that he wished at the January
meeting to bring forward a proposal for a Photographic Survey of Essex, to be
worked in connection with the Essex Museum.
The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation, and Mr. Whitaker briefly
replied.
Lecture on "Insect Life."—Mr. Fred. Enock, F.L.S., F.E.S., then
delivered a lecture on the life-histories of some typical insects, which was illustra-
ted by a very fine series of lantern slides, many of them being coloured. Mr.
Enock delightfully related the results of many original observations, and the
patience and skill shown in securing photographs of the actual acts of transforma-
tion and habits of some species were greatly admired by all present.
The President proposed a vote of thanks to the lecturer, and said that in
listening to Mr. Enock he always felt that an observer of nature was speaking and
not a mere cut-and-dried relator of other men's work. The vote of thanks was
most heartily accorded.
NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
ZOOLOGY.
MAMMALIA.
Black Hare in Essex.—Mr. E. H. Watts records in the Field
of January 24th, 1903, the killing of a black hare near Bishops
Stortford. In reply to our enquiries, Mr. Watts says that it was
a buck and perfectly black, and he thinks from one to two years
old. Several melanic forms of the hare are mentioned in Dr.
Laver's book from Epping and Ongar, and the Editor of the
Field writes that seven are recorded in the Encyclopaedia of Sport.
They are doubtless rare, or we should hear of them more
frequently.—Ed.
The Deer in Epping Forest.—The last census recorded in
the E.N. was that taken in 1898 (Vol. xi., p. 52). By inadver-
tence the counting made on the 8th January, 1901, was omitted