THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 175
ORDINARY MEETING (636TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 28TH JANUARY, 1928.
The third meeting of the Winter Session was held in the Physics
Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford,
with the President, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, I.S.O., F.L.S., etc. in the chair.
60 members and visitors attended.
Before the business of the afternoon began, the President referred
to the recent decease of one of the Club's Past-Presidents and Original
Members, Mr. Miller Christy, on the 25th instant. On the President's
motion, a vote of condolence with the relatives of the deceased was carried
in silence, the members rising in their places.
Mr. Leonard Price and Mrs. Ellen Louise Price, of "Glenthorne,"
37, Buckingham Road, South Woodford, E. 18, and Mr. G. H. Gadsdon,
of "Merok," The Uplands, Loughton, were elected members of the Club.
Mr. Avery exhibited a further series of 31 prints and water colour
drawings from the Bird Collection.
The Curator exhibited a selection from some 125 specimens of exotic
Lepidoptera, and 300 species of birds' eggs, presented to the Stratford
Museum.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a curious relic from Loughton. A tall
beech tree, some 4 feet in girth at the butt, was felled three years before
in Birch Wood, on the borders of Loughton and Theydon Bois parishes,
and was sold to Mr. W. Rogers, a fencing contractor, of Bell Common,
Epping. On being sawn and split up for firewood, the trunk was found
to enclose, near the butt, in the solid timber, recognisable remains of a
well-formed cross, which had been cut into the wood at least thirty years
before, as proved by the later annual rings : the growth of new wood had
completely preserved the incision and had embedded it in the trunk.
The relic has been presented by Mr. Rogers to the Club's Forest Museum.
The curator announced the presentation of a fine pair of Elk antlers
(Alces machlis) to the Stratford Museum by Mr. J. B. Fidgen.
In accordance with the decision of the Council, a paper "On a Re-
markable Gall on the Osier," by the late Miller Christy, was taken as read ;
this paper has since been published in the Essex Naturalist.
Mr. Paulson read a paper on "Some Beechwoods of Epping Forest,"
which he illustrated by specimens and by lantern photographs.
Miss G. Lister exhibited sundry books and illustrations relating to
the introduction into England of Linaria cymbalaria, in the early 17th
century, by William Coys, of "Stubbers," North Ockendon.
ORDINARY MEETING (637TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1928.
This meeting was held on the above afternoon in the Physics
Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford, the
President, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, I.S.O., F.L.S., etc., being in the chair.
55 members and visitors were present.
Mrs. Jessie Boake, of "Highstanding," Loughton, was elected a member
of the Club.
In anticipation of the annual meeting, the Council nominated the
President and existing officers of the Club en bloc for re-election.