176 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Mr. Thompson has shown, incorporated with his, there is abundant proof
of much good work by Edward during the twenty years that followed
Benjamin's death.
The MS. note by William Pamplin which Mr. Thompson has des-
scribed is unquestionably by the late bookseller of Frith Street, Soho, as
the speaker recognised both paper and handwriting as identical with
notes sent to him, and the link now traced between Pamplin's family and
the Forsters of Walthamstow was most interesting.
A vote of thanks was passed to the author of the paper.
CRYPTOGAMIC FORAY IN EPPING FOREST
(508th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 15TH NOVEMBER, I9I9.
Favoured by dry, sunny weather, albeit with a cold northerly wind,
some 40 members and friends assembled at Theydon Bois station at 11-30
o'clock, and proceeded via. the Green, to the Forest. The route taken was
by Epping Thicks and the neighbourhood of Ambresbury Banks, Long
Running, the "Wake Arms," Verderer's Path, and Honey Lane Quarters
to Highbeach. Collections of Cryptogamic plants were made all along
the route, under the supervision of the referees for the day, who were :—
For the Mosses and Hepatics .. Messrs. L. B. Hall, F.L.S., and
W. R. Sherrin, A.L.S.
For the Lichens . . .. .. Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S.
For the Fungi and the Myxomycetes.. The President.
Notwithstanding the unusually dry season and low temperature, a
fair number and variety of specimens were met with, and the "finds"
included one or two rare and interesting discoveries.
At Highbeach, Mr. Hugh Main, F.E.S., gave a most interesting field-
demonstration (non-botanical), by digging out an individual specimen
of our British "Trap Door Spider" (Atypus affinis), with its silken home
complete, from a sandy bank. This was appropriated for the Club's
Museum.
Tea was taken at the Roserville Retreat, Highbeach, at 4.15 o'clock,
following which, a Meeting of the Club was held, with the President (Miss
G. Lister, F.L.S.) in the chair, when Mr. Charles Witwell, of 29, Park
Road, Wanstead, was elected a Member.
The President referred sympathetically to the regretted absence, owing
to illness, of one of our conductors, Miss Lorrain Smith, F.L.S., and then
called upon each of the referees for a report on the finds of the day.
Mr. Hall reported that the yield of Mosses was exceptionally-good, no
fewer than 46 species having been met with during the Foray; while 13
hepatics had been identified. Mr. Hall gave a general account of the Bryo-
phytes in their relation to the neighbouring groups—higher and lower—
of cryptogams.
Mr. Sherrin reported that the two most interesting forms met with
were Sphagnum fimbriatum and Dicranum flagellare.
Mr. Paulson reported that 17 forms of lichens had been identified
during the ramble, and added an account of the algal cells in lichens and
their peculiar mode of increase.