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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
The President exhibited under microscopes a form of Volvox, re-
sembling V. aureus closely but destitute of protoplasmic connections
between the cells ; the specimen came from the Eagle Pond at Snares-
brook, and the form does not seem to have been recorded in this country.
The Curator exhibited some dried plants from Acqui, in North Italy-
and from the Rhone Valley, Switzerland, which had been presented to
the Stratford museum by Miss Lister and mounted as herbarium-specimens
by Miss Prince.
He also showed a collection, in book form, of the hepatics found in
Essex, which had been given to the museum by Mr. St. John Marriott
shortly before his lamented decease.
He also exhibited a reconstructed black Pottery Bowl found in Ilford
in 1910, which might be of Late Celtic age but was doubtfully dated.
Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren read a report on the excavations carried out
by the Club at Loughton Camp in Epping Forest during 1926 and 1927;
and Mr. G. C. Dunning added some remarks on the pottery-fragments
found, both at Loughton Camp and at Ambresbury Banks in 1881. This
dual report was illustrated by an exhibition of the various objects found
in the excavations and by lantern-diagrams.
CRYPTOGAMIC FORAY IN EPPING FOREST
(633RD MEETING).
SATURDAY, 12TH NOVEMBER, 1927.
A cold sunny morning promised very different conditions for the
Cryptogamic Foray from those experienced a year ago, when the expedi-
tion had perforce to be abandoned owing to stress of weather ; and the
promise, notwithstanding a few rain showers during the day, was amply
fulfilled in the opinion of the forty or more members and friends who
took part in the present Foray.
Assembled at Theydon Bois station shortly before eleven o'clock,
the party followed a route through the village to Oakhill and thence
passed through the Forest parallel with the road to the "Wake Arms,"
and from there to Highbeach, collecting throughout the passage. Mr. W,
R. Sherrin, A.L.S., and Mr. F. W. Thorrington acted as referees for the
ferns, mosses and liverworts. Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S., and
Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S., named the lichens met with, and Miss G. Lister,
F.L.S., was responsible for the identification of the myxomycetes found.
Fungi were noticeably few, by reason of the cold snap of frosty weather.
At the headquarters for the day, the Roserville Retreat at High-
beach, an informal exhibition of the specimens collected during the foray
was held in the late afternoon.
After tea at 4.30 o'clock, a meeting of the Club was held, when Mr.
Guy L. Wilkins, of 6, Abbotts Park Road, Leyton, E. 10, was elected a
member. The referees then, at the President's request, made their respec-
tive reports of the day's finds in their various departments.
Mr. Sherrin reported a record number of finds, no fewer than 52 varieties
of mosses (including only one Sphagnum), and 14 species of hepatics having
been noted. Among the more interesting finds were Webera proligera,
which had been found that day for the second time in Epping Forest;
Barbula revoluta, which had been found in a new station; Barbula rubella