328 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
On the motion of Mr. Whitwell, seconded by Mr. Nicholson, the members
of the Cole Pension Committee were re-appointed for the ensuing year.
The President then delivered his Presidential address "Ten Years'
Progress in Lichenology in the British Isles," which he illustrated by a
series of lantern photographs and by the exhibition of specimens of various
lichens.
At the conclusion of an interesting address, Mr. Percy Thompson
eulogized the work of the President in throwing new light upon the relation-
ship which subsists between the algal and fungal components of the lichen-
plant ; and moved that the best thanks of the Club be accorded to the
President for his address, and that he be requested to allow it to be pub-
lished in the Club's journal. Miss A. Lorrain Smith, in seconding the
motion, paid a tribute to Mr. Paulson's valuable work in Lichenology,
and, on being put to the meeting, the motion was carried by acclamation.
The President, in reply, thanked the Members for their cordial recep-
tion of his address, and expressed his willingness to allow it to be published.
The Meeting then terminated.
NOTES : ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
Aeneas MacIntyre : A Forgotten Essex Botanist.—Mr. James
Britten, in the Journal of Botany for June 1921 (p. 176) gives, under
the heading of "Bibliographical Notes," further particulars concerning
this individual, as to whom Mr. Miller Christy was recently enquiring.1
Mr. M. E. Hughes-Hughes also offers [in litt.] some additional informa-
tion. He states that his father was sent at the age of 51/2 years (in 1823
or 1824), to the large boarding school, kept by MacIntyre, which is men-
tioned by Mr. Britten. Mr. Hughes-Hughes observes, "I fancy that it
was not a successful venture, for I have some recollection of my father
saying that his father helped to finance him" ; and he relates how Mac-
Intyre presented medals, in a progressive series, to his pupils as rewards
of merit. MacIntyre's son, of the same name as himself, was not unnatur-
ally more beloved of his parents than of his fellow pupils ; he is believed
to have studied for the Bar, and to have become a Q.C. in mature years.
In the Journal of Botany for July 1921 (p. 204), Dr. B. Daydon Jack-
son and Mr. Spencer Moore add some further particulars of this botanist.
The latter gives evidence which is confirmatory of Mr. Hughes-Hughes'
statements, but points out that MacIntyre's school was not at Stockwell
Park, as believed by Mr. Miller Christy, but at Streatham Common.
In 1840 MacIntyre was residing at West Ham, according to the rate-
book of that year, in a small house in Vicarage Lane, of the rental value
of £20 and rateable value £16.—Ed.
Snow-Goose at Harlow.—"A.H.G." states (Field, January
29, 1921, p. 126), that, during a storm on January 10, 1921, a Snow-Goose
came down to the water at Barrington Hall, Harlow, and stayed four
days. It accompanied some Canada Geese which live there, and was
noticed to be a good deal smaller than these birds. (British Birds, xiv.,
May 1921, p. 282.)
1 See ante, p. 267.