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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.—REPORTS OF
MEETINGS.
ORDINARY MEETING (507th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 25TH OCTOBER, 1919.
This Meeting 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 G. Lister, F.L.S., in the chair.
The following ladies and gentleman were elected Members of the
Club :—
Miss Mabel A. Greaves, of Esme, New Wanstead, E.11.
Mrs. L. Millburn, of 62, Herne Hill, S.E.24.
Mr. Ronald Bain Calder, of "Wyvis," Seagry Road, Wanstead.
Mr. Percy Thompson exhibited fronds of the Royal Fern (Osmunda
regalis) which had been recently found by Mrs. Thompson in Epping
Forest: the last recorded occurrence of this fern in the Forest was ante
1854, at Chingford. The present specimen (which has been placed in
the Club's herbarium) was under a foot high, and showed no signs of
having been introduced by human agency.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited an album of lichens, mosses and fungi,
which had been collected by Richard Warner, the author of "Plantae
Woodfordienses," in the neighbourhoods of Gloucester, Worcester, and
the Forest of Dean. This album was presented to the Club in its early
days (in 1880) by Sir Clarke Jervoise, Bart., and had been lost sight of
until recently : it had now been repaired, and the contained specimens'
mounted in such a manner as to allow Warner's quaint manuscript records
of their habitats to be readily examined.
Mr. Thompson further exhibited, and presented to the Museum, a left
lower ramus of the jaw of an Ox, with one tooth in tutu, and also a portion
of a leg bone of an ox, both of which were covered with incrusting lichens
and served to illustrate the rapid rate of growth of the latter.
Mr. Charles Nicholson, F.E.S., exhibited, and presented to the Museum,
a feeding platform of the Long-tailed Field Mouse (Mus sylvaticus), which
appeared to be based upon a deserted bird's nest.
Mr. Avery exhibited a series of Essex prints selected to illustrate the
neighbourhoods of Walthamstow, Leyton and Woodford.
Votes of thanks were accorded to the several exhibitors and donors.
Mr. W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., gave a Report of the Conference of
Delegates at the British Association Meeting at Bournemouth in September,
1919.
The thanks of the Meeting were voted at Mr. Whitaker for his inter-
esting report.
The President then called upon Mr. Percy Thompson, F.L.S., who
read a paper "On an annotated copy of Warner's "Plantae Woodfordien-
ses,"" hich was illustrated by lantern photopraphs and by a display of
photographs and by books referred to in the paper.
In the course of the ensuing discussion, Professor Boulger, F.L.S.,
F.G.S., said that to him the paper had been one of great interest: some.