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Daucus carota, Medicago maculata, Senecio erucifolius, and Helminthia
echioides.
Attention was also given to the brackish-water ditches met with on the
way to the saltings. Many small chaetopod worms were seen emerging
timidly from their tubes in the muddy ditch-bottoms and retreating at the
least alarm, even at a shadow passing over the sun. The President found
the following entomostracans in these ditches :—Cladocera : Ceriodaphnia
reticulata. Copepoda : Eurytemora velox, Halicyclops magniceps (=
Cyclops aquoreus), Cyclops bicuspidatus var. lubbocki, Tachidius brevicornis,
Mesochra lilljeborgi. Ostracoda : Cypridopsis aculeata, Cytheridea
torosa. All these species, except Ceriodaphnia reticulata, are either ex-
clusively brackish water forms or only found as a rule in waters having
some more or less direct connection with brackish water.
At 4.30 o'clock tea was taken at Powell's Winter Gardens after the
little party had been photographed by a local pressman, and after tea
a short meeting of the Club was held, with the President in the chair, when
Mr. James William Campbell, of Layer Marney Hall, Kelvedon, was elected
a member.
A vote of thanks was passed, at the President's suggestion, to our three
conductors, Messrs. R. Paulson, Hugh Main, and F. J. Lambert, one only
of whom, however, had "endured to the end," Messrs. Paulson and Lambert
having left earlier in the day on account of stress of weather.
Mr. Hugh Main replied for himself and his absent colleagues, and gave
a brief report on the insects met with during the afternoon of what he
regarded as a most successful day.
Mr. Percy Thompson reported on the chief botanical finds, and the
President on the water creatures met with, one form of ostraced,
Cypridopsis aculeata, found in one of the brackish ditches, being of especial
interest, while Miss Hibbert-Ware reported having noticed Redshank,
Curlew, Blackheaded Gull, Reed Bunting, Yellowhammer and Swallow.
On reaching Benfleet a half-hour's wait for the return train to town was
profitably spent by some of the party in visiting the church, which, with
its beautiful timber porch, presents many points of interest.
RAMBLE IN THE BARKINGSIDE DISTRICT
(630TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 24TH SEPTEMBER, 1927.
A party of thirty members spent an interesting afternoon in visiting,
by kind permission of the several occupiers, some of the ancient farmhouses
in the neighbourhood of Barkingside, which seem doomed very shortly to
be submerged in the unprecedentedly rapid outgrowth of Ilford. Already
the line of streets is only two fields distant from the farms, and it appears
most probable that another decade will see the whole district covered by
interminable rows of houses.
Assembled at Snaresbrook station at 2.30 o'clock the party, under the
leadership of Mr. Charles Hall Crouch and the Hon. Secretary, proceeded
through Wanstead to the Roding meadows, crossed the river by a footbridge,
and made its way by field paths past the blackboarded barn which con-
stitutes all that remains of Strackmans Farm (the farmhouse itself having
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