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Cyclostomata, we have 116 as the revised total, up to the
present date, of true fishes occurring in the Essex streams and
ponds, and the restricted marine area recognised by Dr. Laver.
Doubtless many more will be added from the Thames Estuary
and elsewhere when the much desired systematic explorations
are undertaken, especially if a somewhat more elastic definition
of the "Essex Marine Shallow-Water District" is adopted,
following the custom of other county recorders. (See E. N. ii.
40 and xiii,, 37; also Laver's Fishes, p. 13).
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB : REPORTS OF
MEETINGS.
THE 218th ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, December 6th, 1902.
The meeting was held in the Technical Institute, Stratford, at 6.30 as usual.
Prof. R. Meldola, President, in the chair.
New Member.—Mr. George Miles was elected.
Cuttle-Fish Exhibited.—Mr. W. Cole showed a fine specimen of Sepia
officinalis from the North Sea, presented by Mr. Goodchild. This specimen was
very much larger than the one exhibited at the last meeting. The animal was
seldom obtained immediately off the Essex Coast, and then generally in the young
state.
Neolithic Implements from Chelmsford. — Mr. Henry Mothersole sent
for exhibition two flint implements found by himself near Chelmsford. One was a
hammer-stone, showing evident marks of use, with a curved ridge, very like the
one figured in Evans' Stone Implements, p. 246. These specimens will be figured
and described in a future part of the E.N.
Paper Read.—Mr. A. S. Kennard read extracts from a paper by himself and
Mr. B. B.Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S., on "The Non-Marine Mollusca of the
River Lea Alluvium at Walthamstow." The paper included the molluscan results
of the recent excavations in making the East London Company's new reservoirs.
One of the most noteworthy results of the investigation was the discovery of
Planorbis stroemii, a shell not hitherto reported from these islands either living
or extinct. The paper was published in the last part of E.N., ante, pp. 13-21.
At the same time, Mr. Kennard very kindly presented a full set of the shells
to the Club's Museum.
A vote of thanks was cordially passed to the authors on the motion of the
President, who congratulated them upon a remarkably good piece of work. The
numerous papers which would probably be the result of the study of the
excavations in the Lea Valley would be most interesting and valuable as
contributions to local geology, archaeology, and palaeontology.
Demonstration of Tri-colour Photography.—Mr. Edward R. Turner
then gave a practical Demonstration of the Lumiere Company's process of