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Tyndall, Samuel Dale, and various topographical views of Plaistow,
Wanstead, Chigwell, and elsewhere in the County.
Mr. Mothersole exhibited a nest of one of the mason bees, adherent
to a brick, from his garden at Writtle.
Mr. Thompson exhibited a number of sections of tree-trunks, some
of them from West Ham trees, which had been presented to the Museum
and polished for exhibition.
He also exhibited samples of a collection of sixty-one plaster moulds
for making wax fruits and various articles of pastry ; these had been
made by the father of the late Alderman Hosking, of Stratford, in the middle
of the 19th century, and some had been exhibited at the Great Exhibition
in Hyde Park of 1851. The moulds had recently been given to the
Essex Museum by Alderman Hosking's widow, who had also kindly lent
for exhibition at the meeting some of the wax fruits actually made from
the moulds.
The Curator also exhibited a cylindrical granite object, which had
been found in excavating for the foundations of a new bridge across Barking
Creek in connection with the new bye-pass road now under construction
by the Ministry of Transport. A discussion as to its use lead to the
conclusion that it was a muller, or pounder, for grinding paints, and was
probably of no great age: traces of red pigment were still discoverable in
minute hollows of its surface.
A paper entitled "Some Micro-Analyses of Moorlog from the Dogger
Bank," by Dr. O. G. E. Erdtman, of the Botanic Laboratory, University
of Stockholm, was read, in the author's absence, by the Hon. Secretary,
who introduced the subject by a short resume of Mr. Whitehead's earlier
work in connection with Moorlog ; the arranged specimens of fossils
found in the moorlog by Whitehead, and now preserved in the Museum,
were exhibited.
Miss G. Lister read some "Remarks on a Collection of Flowering Plants
made by the late Lord Lister at Upton and elsewhere, 1844 to 1848," and
presented the entire collection to the Stratford Museum. In
expressing the warm thanks of the Club to Miss Lister for her gift, the
President said the collection was of great value, apart from its connection
with Lord Lister, as showing the changes in plant-life due to the growth
of population in the district.
Mr. Percy Thompson read a paper, entitled "Some Account of the
Chip-Chap' Club," which he illustrated by the exhibition of sundry-
photographs and of the MS. minute-book referred to in the paper.
Thanks to the several donors and authors brought the meeting to a
close.
VISIT TO THE CLUB'S MUSEUM AT QUEEN ELIZABETH'S
LODGE, CHINGFORD (591ST MEETING).
SATURDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY, 1925.
A visit of inspection to the Club's Forest Museum at Chingford was
paid on the above afternoon, in conjunction with members of the Gilbert
White Fellowship, when over 40 persons attended. The special object