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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
ORDINARY MEETING (555TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 25TH NOVEMBER, 1922.
The second Winter Meeting was held as usual in the Physical Lecture
Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford, with the Presi-
dent, Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., in the chair. Thirty-five members
were present.
Dr. Arthur Smith Woodward, F.R.S., Presdt. L.S., etc., of 4, Scarsdale
Villas, Kensington, W. 8, was elected an Ordinary Member of the Club.
Mr. P. Horn exhibited and presented to the Museum a coloured model
in plaster, of a huge Common Toad (Bufo vulgaris), from a specimen brought
from Southern France by Mr. Hugh Main ; and explained his method of
modelling.
Mr. Hugh Main exhibited and presented a living Gecko which had been
found in a crate of bananas opened at Woodford ; he also exhibited, on behalf
of Miss Evitt, some large foreign ants which had been found running over
some bananas.
The Curator exhibited and described two specimens of Badhamia utricu-
laris which had been very successfully grown by Miss Greaves in the Club's
Museum during several weeks, and which exhibited several stages in the
life-cycle of this Mycetozoan. Miss Lister added some details on the life-
history of the species.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a set of 168 coloured drawings of British
Wild and garden plants, which had been presented to the museum by Capt.
Crawford, R.N.
Mr. Avery exhibited and described a series of old prints, including some
of "Belhus," Aveley ; as this property has recently been sold to a syndicate,
and may probably be demolished in the near future, the exhibit was very
seasonable.
The Curator directed attention to the special exhibit, in the Museum, of
photographs of the Saffron Walden district taken by our members, Messrs.
Daymond and Nunn, during the Club's visit there last Easter, and presented
by them to the Club.
The thanks of the Meeting were passed to the various donors and ex-
hibitors.
Mr. Whitaker made his report as Club's Delegate to the Conference of
Delegates of Corresponding Societies at the British Association Meeting
at Hull in September last, and was cordially thanked for same.
Miss G. Lister read a paper "On a New Species of Didymium occurring
in Essex," and exhibited and presented to the Museum the type-specimen
of this new Mycetozoan, which she proposed to call Didymium trachysporum.
Mr. Percy Thompson read a paper entitled "Bird Pellets and their
Evidence as to the Food of Birds" (printed ante., p. 115), and exhibited the
Club's Museum collection of pellets in illustration thereof.
Miss Hibbert-Ware read her "Notes on the Gizzard Contents of Birds
collected by Mr. Miller Christy," now in the Club's Museum, and illus-
trated her remarks by a series of lantern photographs (see ante., pp. 142).
In the course of the discussion which followed the reading of the last
two papers, Miss G. Lister mentioned that she possessed an owl's pellet
from a wood near Hitchin, which contained the skeleton of a Noctule Bat ;
and exhibited it.