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Forest to the "Wake Arms" district, zealously collecting en route, and
later worked back to Oak Hill to meet their afternoon colleagues, who
reached this spot at about 3.30 p.m.
Some interesting finds were made during the day, the more important
discoveries being as under :— 
Club Moss —Lycopodium inundatum.
True Mosses—Bartramia pomiformis, Pleuridium, nitidum, Sphagnum
bearing more flowers, and numerous Hypna.
Hepatics. —Fossombronia pusilla, Metzgeria furcata, and Lapidozia
reptans.
Lichens. —Baeomyces roseus, Baeomyces rufus, Cladonia coccifera,
Physcia caesia, Lecidea lucida, and Peltigera spuria.
Tea was taken at the Headquarters, Oak Hill Farm, at 5 o'clock,
after which a short formal Ordinary Meeting of the Club (the 290th) was
held, with Mr. J. C. Shenstone, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the chair. Two
of our Conductors (Miss Lorrain Smith and Mr. Holmes) had unfortunately
been compelled to leave earlier, but the third, Mr. Paulson, gave a general
account of the Lichen-Flora of the Forest, and was followed by Mr. Percy
Thompson, who spoke on the abundant opportunity for the study of
Mosses and Hepatics offered by the district in which the meeting was
held, and by others. Cordial votes of thanks to the Referees were given,
and the meeting ended.
THE 291st ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, 26TH November 1910.
This meeting was held as usual at Stratford at 0 p.m., the President
in the chair.
New Member.—Mr. W. Zimmerman, of Woodberrie Hill, Loughtou,
was elected as a member.
The President congratulated the Club upon the return of the Horn
Secretary and Curator, Mr. Wm. Cole, after his protracted illness ; and Mr.
Cole replied, thanking the members present for their kind reception, and
expressing his gratitude to Mr. Percy Thompson and Mr. Christy, who had
taken up the threads of the secretarial and editorial work during his
absence.
Donations to Museum.—The Acting Secretary exhibited a case of
four Barn Owls, captured at East Ham, which had been presented to the
Club's Museum at Stratford by a former Member, Mr. Savage, and also a
series of Red Crag fossils presented by Mr. Alfred Bell, of Ipswich, in
illustration of his paper to be read that evening. The thanks of the Club
were duly accorded to the respective donors.
Mr. Miller Christy (in the absence of Mr. Guy Maynard, and on his
behalf) exhibited an ivory ball, found in a gravel pit near Arkesden,
which he considered to be a billiard ball, made of elephant's ivory and
exhibiting, when cut in sections, the characteristic engine-turned markings
of such ivory ; he could not give even a guess at its age.
In the discussion which followed Mr. Christy's remarks, Mr. Whitaker
considered that a couple of hundred years amongst gravel would suffice