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three mycetozoans, the rare Badhamia populina, Badhamia panicea, and
Perichaena corticalis, which she had found on the bark of poplar-logs at the
Walthamstow reservoirs.
Mr. Paulson showed some lantern photographs which illustrated the
greatly developed root-system of the common Teasel, and which also
showed the modified water-stomates which appear to function as pores
for the exudation of superfluous water into the cups formed by the opposite
clasping leaves of this plant.
Mr. Thorrington exhibited fronds of various ferns, to show variations
in the forms of the fronds of a single species.
Mr. Mothersole exhibited a set-up specimen of the Stone Curlew,
originally purchased by Mr. David Christy at the Doubleday sale in 1873,
and now presented to the Club's Museum by Miss R. Christy, of Broomfield.
Mr. Nicholson exhibited the "nest" of one of the spinning-mites,
Tetranychus lintearius, on gorse-twigs from Parkstone, Dorset.
The Curator exhibited various remains of the Aurochs, Bos primigenius,
from the Chadwell Spring basin, near Hertford, which had been presented
to the Stratford Museum by our Member, Mr. J. M. Wood, engineer to the
Metropolitan Water Board ; and a large polished section of Elm trunk.
He also exhibited a set-up specimen of the Common Bittern, which was
alleged to have been shot on the Essex marshes about the year 1897, and
had just been presented to the Stratford Museum.
The thanks of the meeting were accorded to the various donors and
exhibitors.
The President then called upon Mr. Robert Paulson, who gave viva
voce his Report as Club's Delegate to the Annual Congress of the South-
Eastern Union of Scientific Societies at Guildford, held in May, 1924.
Thanks were passed to Mr. Paulson for his Report.
Owing to the lateness of the hour, the President decided to postpone
the last item on the agenda, and the meeting was accordingly declared to
be at an end.
VISIT TO THE PREHISTORIC GALLERIES OF THE
BRITISH MUSEUM (589TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 17TH JANUARY, 1925.
The Club paid a visit to the British Museum on the above afternoon
for the purpose of studying the exhibits in the prehistoric galleries under
the able conductorship of Mr. William Dale, F.S.A., F.G.S., and of Mr.
Reginald A. Smith, F.S.A., the keeper of the department.
The party, comprising over forty Members, assembled in the Stone
Age Gallery at 2.30 o'clock, where the Honorary Secretary introduced the
two conductors. Mr. Dale elected to open the proceedings.
Taking up a position in front of the cases containing the representative
series of stone implements from British localities, Mr. Dale gave a general
account of palaeolithic implements and their mode of occurrence in
river gravels ; he sketched the life of later Palaeolithic man in caves and
rock-shelters, and referred briefly to the various early types of man.