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spot, which is thought to have been a landing-place for pottery brought
by galleys from Kent or the Continent in Romano-British times.
Unfortunately, owing possibly to temporary masking by mud, the
exact site of the hut-circles could not be located in the limited time at
disposal before night closed down, so the party had to renounce the
satisfaction of inspecting the remains on this occasion ; several water-
worn fragments of rims of Late-Celtic pots were, however, picked up on
the muddy foreshore. Returning across the marshes in the gathering
dusk to Low Street, train was taken at 8 o'clock for the homeward journey.
At a short meeting held after tea, with the President in the chair,
the Essex County Library, of Felix House, Park Road, Chelmsford, was
elected an institutional member of the Club. The President took the
opportunity of thanking Mr. and Mrs. Harley for their services during
the ramble, and Mr. Harley replied.
Miss E. Prince, who acted as botanical recorder, noted no fewer than
82 plants in flower during the ramble, an excellent total for the time of
year.
FUNGUS FORAY (734TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 13TH OCTOBER, 1934.
As compensation for the wretched weather encountered on last year's
Fungus Foray, Nature was kind this year, and a warm dry day, with
some share of bright sunshine, gladdened the approximately 120 members
and visitors who took part in the Foray.
The meeting was held, as in former years, in conjunction with the
British Mycological Society, and members of various other societies, as
the Gilbert White Fellowship and the School Nature Study Union, were
present by invitation. The referees for the day were :—For the.
Basidiomycetes and Ascomycetes, Miss F. L. Stephens, M.Sc., Miss E. M.
Wakefield, F.L.S., Mr. F. G. Gould, Mr. Arthur A. Pearson, F.L.S. and
Mr. J. Ramsbottom. O.B.E., F.L.S. For the Myxomycetes, Mr. J. Ross.
Assembled at Loughton station at 10.41 o'clock the morning party
made its way through Loughton to the border of the Forest at
Staples Hill, where after some introductory remarks, by way of advice;
given by the Hon. Secretary, it split into various groups which at once
lost touch with each other in the dense thickets : all, however, ultimately
found their way, as did the afternoon party which left Loughton station
at 2.37 o'clock, to the headquarters at the Roserville Retreat, High Beach.
Collections of the numerous fungi met with were made during the
day's ramble in the various districts traversed.
Solitary Italians were, as usual, met in the woodlands with their bags
of Boleti intended for culinary purposes, and a Ruthenian woman was
discovered, seated before a mass of some hundreds of fungi collected by her
Russian husband, busily separating edible from poisonous varieties : she
gave us, in quite good English, a practical demonstration of her method
of preparing and cooking the selected forms and was clearly an expert
at the business.
The results of some four or five hours' intensive search were later
displayed on tables at the Roserville Retreat, under Mr. Gould's direction,
accurately named : it was interesting to watch the numerous botanical