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Lodge, Chingford, at 3 p.m., and after an informal inspection of the
museum, struck out for the woodlands across Chingford Plain.
On entering the thicket, our Conductor, Mr. Francis G. Gould, made
a few remarks on the object of the afternoon's ramble ; and, at his sugges-
tion, the party divided into three groups, pursuing different routes, so as
to cover a larger collecting area.
By this arrangement, in spite of the dry season and the consequent
scarcity of fungi, a very fair collection was got together, and a number
of interesting forms met with.
Tea was taken at 6 o'clock at the Head Quarters for the Meeting, the
Roseville Retreat at Highbeach.
After tea, an Ordinary Meeting of the Club (the 287th) was held,
with the President, Mr. T. S. Dymond, F.I.C, F.C.S., in the chair.
Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., gave a brief preliminary account
of a discovery of a prehistoric interment, believed to be of the Bronze
Age, made by himself and Mr. Miller Christy on the day following the Club's
Meeting at Walton. (See ante pp. 198-208).
New Members.—The following were elected members of the Club :—
Major Tutor Lay, Lexden Road, Colchester.
Mr. Walter Smith, "Roycroft," Buckhurst Hill.
Mr. P. G. H. Boswell, ".Endsleigh," Wellesley Road, Ipswich.
The Chairman drew attention to a petition to the Home Secretary
against the exportation to the United States of lapwings, skylarks, and
linnets, which lay upon the table for signature ; and referred to the extreme
pleasure which he experienced at being able to resume his duties as Presi-
dent of the Club, after six months' enforced absence. He further expressed
his gratitude to Mr. Miller Christy for so efficiently taking his place during
the interval.
Mr. Francis G. Gould then gave a general account of the Fungi as a
class, and their modes of reproduction, with especial reference to some of
the finds of the day.
Mr. Shenstone added a few general remarks on the subject.
Mr. Nicholson; as a member of the British Empire Naturalists' Associa-
tion, thanked the Club for the opportunity offered to his Association of
joining the Club's excursion ; and Mr. Ryan, the Hon. Secretary of the
B.E.N.A., associated himself in this expression of thanks.
The Chairman thanked Mr. Gould for his conductorship of the party,
and for his very interesting lecture on the subject matter of the meeting,
and proposed that a hearty vote of thanks be accorded to him by those
present, which was unanimously carried.
The formal business of the Meeting then came to a close ; but a majority
of those present stayed later to display, and obtain the names of, the
fungi collected during the afternoon. Mr. Gould reports that over 40
species of Hymenomycetes were recorded ; the more interesting forms
being :—
Russula azurea, 
Tricholoma spermatica, and 
Mutinus caninus; 
the remainder being species of common occurrence in the Forest, and some