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referred to in his article on this botanist (see Essex Naturalist, xix.,
p. 303).
Mr. Powers exhibited two chrysalids of the Convolvulus Hawk Moth,
from Leytonstone.
Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a living Scorpion from the south of France,
showing some two dozen living young clustered on the mother's back.
The thanks of the meeting were accorded to the various exhibitors and
donors.
The Hon. Secretary read Mr. Oke's Report as Delegate of the Club
to the Annual Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies at the
British Association Meeting at Edinburgh, in September, and to the South
Eastern Union's Congress at Reading in July.
The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Oke for his report.
Mr. Hugh Main read a paper on "Atypus affinis, the British representa-
tive of the Trap-door Spiders," (printed ante, p. 23), with notes on its
occurrence in Epping Forest, illustrating his subject with lantern photo-
graphs and by specimens of the spider and its tube.
Thanks were voted to Mr. Main for his communication.
The President then called upon Mr. John Seabrook, who gave an
interesting lecture on "The Nile in the Service of Egypt," accompanying
his account with a series of lantern photographs of the Nile, its barrages
and dams, and exhibiting also a fine series of entomological specimens
taken in Egypt by himself whilst on active service.
The President proposed the thanks of the meeting to the lecturer,
which were heartily accorded.
CRYPTOGAMIC FORAY IN EPPING FOREST
(537th MEETING).
SATURDAY, I2TH NOVEMBER, 1921.
The rigours of a bitterly cold day, with a northerly wind, were faced
by a small, but determined, party, numbering some 28 to 30 persons, on
the occasion of the annual Cryptogamic foray. Fortunately the thick
hoar frost which had whitened the ground for a week past disappeared on
the morning of the foray, and so enabled the ground-forms of mosses and
lichens to be again recognized.
The party assembled at Loughton Railway Station at 10.41 o'clock.
Entering the Forest at York Hill, after traversing the village of Loughton,
and inspecting the War Memorial on King's Green, the route (a somewhat
zig-zag one) was roughly via Blackweir Hill, the Green Ride as far as
nearly to Broadstrood, Great Monk Wood, the Wake Valley, and thence
across to the Verderer's Path and Highbeach.
Collecting was actively carried on throughout the day, this being emin-
ently a working party, under the energetic conductorship of Mr. L. B.
Hall, F.L.S. and Mr. W. R. Sherrin, A.L.S. (for the mosses and hepatics),
Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S. and our President, Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S.
(for the lichens), and Miss G. Lister, F.L.S. (for the fungi and myxomycetes).
Some of the rarities of the Forest were sought (and found) in their known
stations.