NOTES.—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 25
8vo., 21 pp.)2 In his preface, he says that, "with few excep-
tions, the plants have been found by the writer himself, and no
other species has been admitted into the list but upon good
authority." He adds that the list is "the result of more than
twenty years' careful observation." The species recorded
number 317.
Freeman also supplied to Gibson localities of plants he
had found in the neighbourhood of Stratford.3
[Since the foregoing was written, Mr. W. H. Freeman has
presented the three herbaria to the Museum of the Essex
Field Club, at Stratford.—Ed.]
J. P. Johnson: Obituary Notice.—We deeply regret
to announce the death, at the early age of 38, of this former
member of the Club, whom many will remember. Born in
London in 1880. he was educated at Dulwich College and the
Royal School of Mines. In 1902, considerations of health
compelled him to migrate to South Africa, where he died at
Johannesburg on 18th October last, from pneumonia following
an attack of influenza. His contributions to geological science
and prehistory are valuable and numerous. He contributed
many papers to the pages of this journal and will always be
remembered by his valuable discoveries in the Pleistocene
Deposits of Ilford. It is, indeed, largely owing to his enthusiasm
and keen hunting that our knowledge of this deposit is so well
founded. Mention should also be made of his paper on the
Eocene Flora and Fauna of Walton-on-Naze (Essex Naturalist,
xi., pp. 284-7). Many of his Essex specimens were given by
him some time ago to our Museum at' Stratford. He was a
member of the Council of the Geological Society of South Africa
and was appointed by the South African Government a member
of the Commission to report on the petroglyphs and rock-
paintings of South Africa, many of which are reproduced in his
Prehistoric Period in South Africa (2nd edition, 1912).
Occurrence of Trout in the River Roding.—On the
6th October, while angling for chub in the Roding, I was much
surprised to catch a ten-inch trout. It was in fine condition,
and the herring-like colour, absence of red, abundance
of stellate black spots, slender jaws, and dark-tipped adipose
fin all indicate that the fish was not the common English Brook
2 There is a copy of this work in the Club's Library.
3 Flora of Essex (1862), p. xx.