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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Ross, growing on a fallen beech-trunk in a new station nearly two miles
distant from its earlier one.
Of the eight species of mycetozoa, one found by Miss E. A. Greaves,
Liceopsis lobata (List.) Torrend, is a rarity in the Forest and appears to be
nowhere abundant. It was found first in Wanstead Park, within a de-
cayed stump of Spanish Chestnut, in July 1887, and continued to appear
there during the summers of the three succeeding years ; in June 1903
Mr. T. Petch found it at High Beach : it has also been recorded from
France, N. Germany, Switzerland and Portugal. Miss Greaves' specimen
was a fine growth in a hollow oak log not far from the "Wake Arms" ;
the best colony measured 25 mm. by 13 mm. across and consisted of a sheet
of confluent, shining, clay-coloured sporangia ; other clusters varied
from 2 mm. to 12 mm. across.
On the President's motion the thanks of those present were cordially
given to the Conductors and the meeting terminated, the walk through the
darkening Forest to Loughton, under a clear blue-black sky, with the
crescent moon hanging low in the west, being by no means the least
enjoyable feature of a very happy day with Nature.
ORDINARY MEETING (573rd MEETING).
SATURDAY, 24TH NOVEMBER, 1923.
This, the second meeting of the winter season, was held as usual
in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road,
Stratford, at 3 o'clock on the above date, the President being in the chair.
Miss Ada Prall, of 151, Maida Vale, W., was elected a Member of the
Club.
Mr. Avery exhibited eleven Essex portraits and six other Essex prints
from his private collection.
Mr. Nicholson exhibited a fragment of tree-bark which showed a
portion of a Brazil nut cemented to the bark by the rapid growth of a fungus,
Polystictus versicolor. He also showed some unusually large Plane
leaves from Higham's Park, one of which measured 16 inches by 13
inches across.
Mr. Thompson exhibited a selection from a collection of 306 prehistoric
implements and flakes which had just been purchased for the Essex Museum,
and gave an account of their origin and of the persons who collected them.
Miss Hibbert Ware read an account of the nesting of the Gannet, and
touched upon the literary history of this bird : she exhibited some excel-
lent lantern photographs showing one of the breeding-spots of the Gannet
in Wales.
Mr. J. Ramsbottom, O.B.E., F.L.S., gave a lecture on "Common Toad-
stools," which was accompanied by a magnificent series of coloured lantern
photographs of the forms described.
Mr. Avery referred to the absence, through illness, of Mr. W. Whitaker,
who was to have presented his report on the Conference of Delegates of
Corresponding Societies at the British Association Meeting at Liverpool
last September, which he attended as Delegate of the Club; it was unani-