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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
to the recent completion of the "General Index" to the first 22 volumes
of the Essex Naturalist and to the great obligation under which the
Club was to its Hon. Librarian for undertaking, and successfully carrying
through, so onerous a task. He considered that the Club should testify
its appreciation of Mr. Barns' labours in some tangible form and he accord-
ingly asked him to accept from the Club an inscribed copy of the "General
Index,'' bound in full morocco, as a slight token of such appreciation.
Mr. Barns, in accepting the gift, thanked the President and his fellow-
members for their kindly acknowledgment of what had been to him a
labour of love.
Mrs. W. C. Waller, of Ash Green, Loughton, and Mr. Geoffry Nicholson,
of "Homeland," Basildon Road, Laindon, were elected to membership
of the Club.
Mr. Avery exhibited fifteen old maps of Essex.
Miss Lister showed a sketch of a cock Pied Blackbird now frequenting
her garden at Leytonstone, and called attention to the bilateral symmetry
of its colouration.
Mr. Ward exhibited dried plants from Epping Forest, viz. :—Utri-
cularia in flower, Claytonia sibirica and Comarum palustre, also a series of
Hover-flies (Syrphidae) from the Forest, and a Sandwich Tern from Nor-
folk.
Mr. Dennis exhibited, and presented to the Club's Museum, several
photographs of Pebmarsh taken by himself and a volume on Epping
Forest entitled "London's Great Legacy."
Mr. Mothersole exhibited a remarkable iron Axe, thought to be of
Gallo-Roman date, which he had acquired from the collection of the
late Mr. Hastings Worrin and which was said to have been found in a
pond at Little Dunmow.
The Curator showed 83 sheets of dried plants collected by the late Lord
Lister in the Auvergne, in Spain and in Majorca, also an Album of Swiss
Alpine plants once belonging to Lord Lister : all of these being the gift
to the Stratford Museum of his niece, Miss G. Lister.
He also showed 138 photographs of factory and other buildings having
frontages to the Water Works River, the City Mills River and the Three
Mills Rivers, printed from negatives taken by the West Ham Borough
Engineer's office in May, 1930, prior to the very extensive alterations now
in progress in widening, and in some cases filling in, these tributary channels
of the river Lea.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a curious twining plant, Araujia sericifera,
the Brazilian Bladder-flower (N.O. Asclepiadacaea), which entraps honey-
seeking moths, etc., by their tongues.
Mr. Scourfield read his Report as Delegate from the Club to the Con-
ference of Corresponding Societies at the British Association meeting at
Leicester in September.
Mr. J. G. Covernton, M.A., C.I.E., delivered a lecture on "Flint
Implements and other Worked Flints from the Upper Pant Valley" in
the neighbourhood of Finchingfield, which he illustrated by a diagram and
by the exhibition of a large number of specimens. A discussion followed,
in which Messrs. Thompson, Mothersole and Barns joined ; and the thanks
of the meeting were accorded to the lecturer, on the motion of Mr. Barns,
by acclamation.