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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
By Mrs. Hatley. Original water-colour drawings of houses at
Hatfield Broad Oak and elsewhere in Essex; also selenite
crystals from the London Clay viewed by polarised light.
By Mr. Paulson. Various lichens, to illustrate their varied
forms and colours.
By Miss Hibbert-Ware. A fine series of nestling birds; also
living Azolla filiculoides.
By Mr. Main. Living Methoca ichneumonides, various ground
beetles and cockroaches.
By Mr. Dennis. Transparencies of Essex wild-flowers.
By Mr. Mothersole. Prehistoric implements from the Chelms-
ford district; a nest of Redbreast made in an old leather
cycle-wallet, (this exhibit was afterwards presented to the
Museum.), nests of Megachile and Osmia.
By Dr. Turner. Elodea canadensis, both summer and winter
forms.
By Mr. Bushby. Living scorpions, bird-eating spider, and
caterpillars of the four-tailed butterfly.
By Mr. Taverner. Coloured stereoscopic photographs of natural
history objects.
By the Club's Museum. Specimen cabinets of fossils from the
Red Crag and the London Clay, of mosses, of lichens, of
birds'-eggs, pellets and skeletal parts, and of butterflies
and moths.
Various displays under microscopes were also made, includ-
ing the following:—
By Dr. Carter. Micrasterias denticulata.
By Mr. Jackson. Specimens of the Battledore Wing Fly (Mymar
pulchellus), ♂ and, ♀ from Highbeach.
By Mr. Bestow. Scales of the Cabbage Butterfly.
By Mr. Todd. Lophopus crystallinus.
By Mr. Soar. Various Moths; also Chrysis ignita viewed by
dark-ground illumination.
By Mr. Wilson. Young Shore Crabs and Plaice at various
stages of development; also Zoea of Hermit Crab.
A complete set of the publications of the Club during the
fifty years of its existence was on view on a centre table in the
Hall.
The conversazione was continued until shortly after 8 o'clock,
when the playing of the National Anthem by the trio-orchestra