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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
Both these papers are printed in the present part of the Essex
Naturalist.
During the discussion which followed the reading of these papers,
Mr. Hinton gave an account of the bones found at the Hull Bridge (Ray-
leigh) site, one being the left os innominatum of a small pony, the other
the lower portion of a shed antler of a Deer, which he considered might
be Reindeer, but was not Red Deer. Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., though
not positive, thought the antler might, after all, be that of a young Red Deer.
Mr. Kennard considered the implements found at Hull Bridge were of
what he called the "Thames" type, comparable with the cave type,
that is to say, of early character. He exhibited two conjoined flakes from
Kent, which illustrated the origin of the apparent "secondary working"
on some of the Hull Bridge flakes, due in reality to earlier flakes having
been struck off in a cross direction. Messrs. Dalton and Cole joined in
the discussion, and Messrs. Reader and Warren replied to various points
raised. The President expressed his appreciation of Mr. H. Rand's part
in the work of discovery and making known of this interesting site, and
thanked Messrs. Reader and Warren for their respective communications.
Dr. A. E. Salter then read, in abstract, his paper on "Sarsens, Basalt
and other Boulders in Essex," exhibiting many fragments of stones tabu-
lated, and illustrating his remarks by maps showing the distribution of
the Boulders throughout the county, and by lantern photographs of some
of the examples. A discussion followed the paper, in which Messrs. Christy,
Dalton, Thompson, T. Reader and. Whitaker took part. Mr. Whitaker
thought that Sarsens should be separated from Boulders proper, as not
being travelled stones, since many of them came, in his opinion, from
Bagshot Beds, which once covered the entire County. Dr. Salter replied
and Mr. Cole announced that the rock-specimens exhibited in illustration
of the paper had been presented by Dr. Salter to the Club's Museum. A
vote of thanks was unanimously passed to Dr. Salter for his paper and the
gift to the Museum.
THE 293rd ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, 28th January 1911.
This meeting was held as usual at Stratford, Mr. T. S. Dymond, Presi-
dent, in the chair.
Letters of thanks were read from Sir Archibald Geikie and Prof. R.
Meldola, in reply to votes of sympathy and congratulation respectively
sent to them by the Club.
Exhibits.—Mr. Somerville Hastings, F.R.C.S., etc., exhibited a special
series of lantern photographs and coloured transparencies of Alpine flower-
ing plants growing in their natural habitats on the Swiss Alps, and gave a
brief description of each plant illustrated and its mode of occurrence,
habits, etc.
An interesting discussion ensued, carried on by Mr. Paulson, Mr. Nichol.
son, Mr. Malby, Mr. F. G. Gould and the President, on the resemblance
between Alpine Plants and Desert Plants, their behaviour when cultivated
in gardens, the possibility of growing them near London, etc., and Dr.