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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., who acted as geological con-
ductor gave a succinct general account of the various beds met
with in the district and their fossil contents ; following whom, Mr.
P. G. H. Boswell, of Ipswich, who was present as a visitor, added some
remarks, by request of the Acting-President, on the fauna of the Red
Crag, and especially dwelt on the difficulty he felt, as an experienced worker
in the Pliocene beds, in regarding the clays and sands, which overlie the
Red Crag in the Naze cliff, as truly representing the Chillesford Beds of
Suffolk.
Mr. Boswell also kindly undertook, in the absence through indisposition
of Mr. Alfred Bell, who was to have accompanied the excursion as a
Palaeontological referee, to name the Red Crag fossils met with.
At one o'clock, an al fresco lunch was taken, after which the walk was
resumed along the shore, beyond the Naze, to the marsh lands lying
between Handford Water and the sea. Here, Mr. R, Paulson, F.R.M.S.,
took the lead as botanical conductor, and called attention to the forms of
saline plants, and beach plants, most characteristic of such habitats.
Collections of very many of the commoner species of these plants were
made by members, the most interesting being :—
Cakile maritima Scop. Limonium vulgare Linn.
Arenaria (Honckenya) peploides Statice maritima Linn.
Linn. Spartina stricta Roth.
Inula crithmoides Linn.
The common grasses Triticum acutum and T. junceum were badly
attacked by Ergot and by some gall-insect.
The members had a somewhat trying experience in attempting a "short
cut'' across the Walton Salt Marshes, being compelled eventually, after
crossing many muddy "fleets," to return by a roundabout route almost
to their starting point.
High tea was served at the Pier Hotel, after which a short formal
Meeting of the Club (the 286th) was held, with the Acting-President, Mr.
Miller Christy, F.L.S., in the chair.
The names of three gentlemen were proposed for membership.
Votes of thanks were passed to the Conductors, and the Meeting
terminated.
On the way to the station, an inspection was made of the ruinous
condition of part of the esplanade, owing to a slip of the London clay cliff,
the esplanade having been pushed bodily forward on to the beach, and
massive blocks of concrete scattered about haphazard, a striking
evidence of the enormous lateral pressure of viscous strata.
FUNGUS FORAY IN EPPING FOREST, AND
287th ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, ist October 1910.
On this, the first Fungus Foray of the season, the district traversed
was that between Chingford and Highbeach. The Meeting was a half-
day one, and was attended by some members of the West Essex Branch
of the British Empire Naturalists' Association. 
The party assembled at the Club's Museum at Queen Elizabeth's