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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
The Club's library now comprises 5,505 bound volumes, no less than 96
having been bound during the year ; new book cases are being obtained
to accommodate the increasing number of books.
The growth of the Pictorial Survey collection is such that additional
cabinets and albums to contain the photographs and prints have become
a necessity, and it is gratifying to learn that the West Ham Corporation
has generously undertaken the provision of these. In connection with
the Survey, also, it is contemplated to acquire a special type of photo-
graphic enlarging apparatus, which will, it is hoped, inspire our members
to loan their small-sized snapshot negatives and films in order that en-
largements made be taken therefrom for the Survey collection.
At the Forest Museum, Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, changes are im-
pending which have given your officers much correspondence with the
officials of the City of London Corporation, and have caused some anxiety
as to the future care of the Club's exhibits in that Museum. The matter
is still sub judice and further developments are anticipated in the near
future.
The Essex Naturalist has appeared at regular six monthly intervals.
In conclusion, your Council again commends to all the members the
urgent desirability of enlisting new recruits to increase the membership
of the Club.
DIDYMIUM LISTERI MASSEE IN EPPING FOREST.
We regret that, by a compositor's error after the proofs had been
corrected, a line of text in the last part of this Journal describing the
newly-recorded Essex myxomycete, Didymium Listeri Massee, was dis-
placed from its context (p. 109) and so rendered the sentence
unintelligible. It should read as follows :—
" Our rarest species was a specimen of Didymium Listeri Massee, a
new record for the county. It was found by Mr. Ross on a dead holly
leaf, and consisted of a flat snow-white plasmodiocarp, about 5 mm. across,"
etc.
BOOK NOTICES.
The Geology of the Country near Hastings and Dungeness, by H. J. Osborne
White (Geol. Surv. Memoir), 1928.
The area dealt with in this Memoir includes the important residential
centres of Hastings, St. Leonards and Bexhill, and the ancient towns of
Rye and Winchelsea. New colour-printed 1-inch geological maps of the
district described are issued to accompany the memoir at a cost of 2s. each.
The Memoir is published by H.M. Stationery Office, Adastral House,
Kingsway, W.C.2, at 3s. net.
The Geology of the Country around Woodbridge, Felixstowe, and Orford,
by P. G. H. Boswell, O.B.E., D.Sc., 1928.
This recent memoir of the Geological Survey deals with a region
closely adjacent to our county and is consequently of essential value and
interest to Essex geologists. It may be obtained from H.M, Stationery
Office, Kingsway, W.C.2, at 2s. 6d. net.