THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 197
ORDINARY MEETING (THE 464th MEETING).
Saturday, 28th October 1916.
This, the first meeting of the Winter Session, was held at 3 o'clock
in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal Technical Institute,
Stratford, Mr. W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., (in the absence of the President),
in the chair.
The following were elected members of the Club :—
Miss M. W, Savage, of 77, Leybourne Road, Leytonstone.
Miss Woollett, of Canterbury Road Schools, Leytonstone.
Miss E. G. Brimson, of 2, Argyle Road, Stratford.
Miss Winifred de Lisle, of 58, Tyrwhitt Road, Brockley, S.E.
Captain Somerville Hastings, M.R.C.S., of 43, Devonshire Street, W.
Mr. J. J. Jackson, of 30, Windsor Road, Wanstead.
Mr. Hemington Pegler, M.D., of 53, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish
Square, W.
Reports were received from the Club's Delegates (Mr. D. J. Scourfield,
F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., and Mr. W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., respectively),
relative to the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies
at Tunbridge-Wells in May 1910, and the Meeting of the Corresponding
Societies' Committee at the British Association Meeting at Newcastle ;
and thanks were accorded to the delegates for their Reports.
A paper on "Desmids, with special reference to those found in Essex,"
was then read by Mr. Joseph Wilson, F.R.M.S., the paper being copiously
illustrated by lantern diagrams and photographs and by mounted
specimens exhibited under microscopes. A cordial vote of thanks was.
passed to Mr. Wilson.
CRYPTOGAMIC RAMBLE IN EPPING FOREST
(465TH MEETING).
Saturday, 11th November 1916.
This field-meeting was attended by nearly forty members and visitors,
under the expert conductorship of Miss A. Hibbert-Ware, F.L.S., who
acted as referee for the Myxomycetes, Mr. L. B. Hall, F.L.S., and Mr.
W. R. Sherrin, who undertook the identification of the mosses and hepatics,
and Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S., and Mr. Robert Paulson, F.L.S., who
undertook that of the lichens.
The route was from Loughton station through the village to York
Hill, where the Forest was entered, and thence through the woodlands
by way of Blackweir Hill, Great Monk Wood, and the Wake Valley, to
High Beach. At York Hill, Mr. Whitaker called attention to the fine
examples of landslips in the London Clay on the sharp western slope of
the Hill, where no tree-roots occur to buttress the clay ; and Mr. Paulson
pointed out the abundance of the soil-lichen, Lecidea uliginosa, which
clothes bare patches of ground with a purple stain.
Several finds of interest were recorded in the various classes of
Cryptogamic plants. Mr. J, Ross noted the moss Mnium punctatum in
fruit by one of the Forest brooks, and Mrs. Thompson was fortunate in.
again finding Leucobryum glaucum, with young fruiting capsules, in Great