112
THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
1921. "AEneas MacIntyre : a forgotten Essex Botanist."
1924. "The Common Polypody in Essex : Why is it
Decreasing ?"
1927. "Essex Rivers and their Names."
In 1890 Christy wrote a Special Memoir for the Club on
"The Birds of Essex," which still remains the chief authority
on the subject ; and in 1910 his and Miss Thresh's exhaustive
account (referred to above) on the History of Mineral Waters
of Essex was republished, with additions, as another Special
Memoir of the Club.
Miller Christy (the "Robert" was early dropped, except
among members of his family) served as President of the Club
from 1905 to 1907, and again in 1910 (during the then President's
illness) as Acting-President, since when he has been one of its
permanent Vice-Presidents. He was a most frequent attendant
at the Club's meetings, both at the indoor and the field meetings,
and he offered hospitality to the members at his home at Chignal
St. James, near Chelmsford, on many occasions; and the Club's
Museum owes many interesting specimens to his generosity.
From 1917 to 1919 he edited the Essex Naturalist.
In 1889 he was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society,
For many years he was a member of Council of the Essex
Archaeological Society, and he was a prominent member of the
now defunct Morant Club, which he helped to found in 1910.
To older members of our own Club the figure of Miller Christy
is so familiar, and his name is so closely bound up with the Club,
that it is indeed hard to realise that the forty-eight-year long
association is broken. In many respects
"We ne'er shall look upon his like again." P.T.
ORIGINAL NOTES.
LEA VALLEY DEPOSITS.
A series of trial holes across the lower Lea Valley between Hackney
Wick and Leyton, made in September and October, 1925, by the Engineer
to the Leyton U.D. Council, preparatory to excavations for a new main
outfall sewer from Leyton to connect with the London County Council
sewer, gave the following sections through the alluvium and valley
deposits :—-