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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB—REPORTS OF
MEETINGS.
ORDINARY MEETING (647TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 27TH OCTOBER, 1928.
The first meeting of the winter session was held at 3 o'clock on the
above afternoon in the Great Hall of the Municipal College, Romford
Road, Stratford (by kind permission of the Principal of the College),
with the President in the chair. Over sixty members and visitors were
present.
Certificates were read in favour of four candidates for membership
of the Club.
Mr. Joseph Wilson, F.R.M.S., read his report, as delegate from the
Club, of the Conference of Delegates of Corresponding Societies at the
British Association Meeting at Glasgow in September, 1928. Thanks
were accorded to Mr. Wilson for his report.
In the absence of the usual exhibition of prints from Mr. Avery's
private collection, owing to his illness, the Curator exhibited a large
series of topographical photographs of Essex from the Museum Pictorial
Survey, many of which had been enlarged from negatives kindly loaned
by Mr. L. S. Harley, Mr. Colney Campbell and others.
Mr. Thorrington exhibited living specimens of the Cape Sundew
(Drosera capensis) which he had raised from seed.
The President explained that the present meeting had been organised
by himself as a special exhibition-meeting to illustrate aquatic forms
of life, both animal and vegetable. In response to his invitation, various
members and non-members of the Club had sent appropriate exhibits, as
tabulated below ; the exhibitor in each case added remarks descriptive
of the objects shown, and in some cases further illustrated them by means
of lantern slides.
Mr. Joseph Wilson exhibited various Desmids.
Miss G. Lister exhibited Water-lilies and Hornwort, Ceratophyllum
demersum, and remarked that the latter was regarded as a relative of the
water-lilies, being connected by such links as the Water-Shields (Brasenia).
Miss Hibbert-Ware showed gnat pupae, larvae of Mayfly, and other
creatures, to illustrate the animal and plant life of Epping Forest ponds
at this late season of the year.
Mr. Halton exhibited the rare Essex Gephyrean, Priapulus caudatus,
recently found at Fowlness.
Mr. Soar exhibited various water-mites.
Dr. Turner showed the rotifer, Melicerta ringens, and some developing
eggs of pond-snails.
Mr. Jane exhibited living Polycelis nigra.
Mr. Rice showed various Diatoms.
Mr. Wilkins showed wax models of various molluscans, modelled
and coloured by himself.
Mr. Main exhibited larvae of Taeniorhynchus richiardii, a culicid fly
which obtains its air-supply by piercing the rootlets of aquatic plants.
Mr. Bestow exhibited the beautiful rotiferon, Floscularia.