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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB
ORDINARY MEETING (THE 478th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 27TH OCTOBER 1917.
The first Meeting of the Winter Session was held at 3 o'clock on the
above afternoon in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal Technical
Institute, Romford Road, Stratford, the President (Miss Cr. Lister, F.L.S.)
being in the chair. Some 44 Members attended.
The following were elected members of the Club :—
Miss M. S. Elliott, Ursuline Convent, Forest Gate.
Miss Williamson, Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Epping.
Mr. F. G. Pell, The Hut, Russell Road, Buckhurst Hill.
Mr. F. T. Vallins, 372, Sherrard Road, Manor Path.
The Report of the Club's Delegate to the British Association Meeting,
1917, was given viva-voce by Mr. William Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., etc.
Mr. F. J. Stubbs exhibited, and presented to the Club's Museum on
behalf of Mr. A. H. Tozer, a young Corncrake (Crex pratensis) in down,
from a nest at Piercing Hill, Theydon Bois, taken in July last ; and
remarked on the scarcity of this bird in south-east England.
Mr. Stubbs also exhibited a Squirrel from Epping Forest, and observed
that the old English Squirrel, formerly common in the Forest, seemed
now to be superseded by a continental form (Sciurus vulgaris-fuscoata),
specimens of which were turned out some years ago by the late Mr. C.
E. Green, of Epping. This continental form seemed to be thriving in
the Forest, and the specimen exhibited was one of these aliens.
Major Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, J.P., F.S.A., etc., then gave a
a lecture on "Plants that have figured in Herbals and Simples." The
lecture was illustrated by a series of lantern photographs taken from
illustrations in old herbals, and by a further series, illustrating various
poisonous plants used in medicine, which were exhibited by Mr. Nicholson.
A greatly appreciated further illustration of the subject was afforded
by a special exhibit of Old Herbals, kindly lent by Miss E. Willmott.
F.L.S., by the President, by Mr. H. W. Lewer, F.S.A., and the Club's
own Library ; and Miss Willmott gave some account of the exhibit.
Hearty thanks were accorded to the Lecturer and to Miss Willmott.
A catalogue raisonne of the Herbals exhibited on this occasion, which
has been kindly drawn up by the President, appears hereafter (pp. 286-291).
CRYPTOGAMIC FORAY, THEYDON BOIS TO HIGH
BEACH (479th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 10TH NOVEMBER 1917.
An all-day foray was held in Epping Forest on this date for the col-
lection of Cryptogamic plants under the direction of the following experts :
Myxomycetes
Mosses and Hepatics
Lichens
The President.
Miss A. Hibbert-Ware, F.L.S.
Mr. L. B. Hall, F.L.S.
Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S.
Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S.
Starting from Theydon Bois station at 11.18 o'clock, the party,
numbering eventually some 35 persons, proceeded by Oak Hill, Jack's