158 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
ford Road, Stratford, with the President in the chair. 48 members
attended.
Before commencing the business of the meeting, the President referred
to the recent deaths of Mr. Stephen Barns and Mr. J. C. Shenstone, and
asked the members to stand as a last tribute to the memory of the deceased
members.
The following persons were elected to membership of the Club :—
Mrs. Reginald Curnock, of "Allerford," 94, Hermon Hill, South
Woodford, E.18.
Miss E. M. Jones, of 24, Clova Road, Forest Gate, E.7.
The Rev. Canon R. Cobden Earle, of Stanford Rivers Rectory,
Essex.
Mr. F. R. Finch, of 9, Cheyne Row, Chelsea, S.W.3.
On behalf of the Council, the Hon. Secretary gave notice that at the
November meeting the adoption of a new Rule would be proposed, viz. :—
"That a new class of member, to be known as 'Junior Members,'
"under 22 years of age, be elected at an annual subscription of 7/6,
"such subscription not to entitle 'Junior Members' to receipt of
"the Essex Naturalist nor to hold office in the Club : but such
"'Junior' membership shall expire on the individual attaining
"the age of 22 years."
Mrs. Hatley read, under the title "Forty Years After," a sketch of
the early history of the Club's Forest Museum and an account of the
recent re-arrangement and additions to the collections there. She ex-
hibited a Romano-British glass bottle from the site of the Chigwell settle-
ment which has recently been restored.
Dr. Jane exhibited, and presented to the Museum, a Puccinia (P.
bupleuri) found last summer growing on Bupleurum tenuissimum at
Canvey ; this is apparently its second record for Essex, the only other
being at Walton-on-Naze in 1887.
Dr. Jane also showed a series of specimens of timber attacked by fungi
which have added to the beauty of "figure," and consequent value of the
wood: his examples included "Brown Oak," "Birds-eye Maple" and
the green oak known as "Tunbridge Ware."
Mr. Main exhibited and described the uncommon water-scorpion
Ranatra linearis, a living specimen, together with its eggs attached to
floating grass-stems and three cast moults of the adult. He also exhibited
various colour-varieties of the Green-veined White Butterfly, some natural,
others brought about artificially by picric acid ; he also showed several
pupae of Pieris brassicae having spines on the thorax, which he thought
might be a character of immigrant specimens from Southern France, but
which were demonstrably not a sexual character.
Mr. Syms exhibited a series of species of long-antennaeed grasshoppers
(Tettigoniidae), two of these being of very local distribution, but found in
Essex, and described their life history and habits.
Mr. Ward showed the Razor-bill f. which haunted the Banbury Reser-
voir in the Lea Valley during last winter ; he said that postmortem dis-
section had proved the bird to be healthy although with its stomach
empty ; it was free from flukes, although other specimens of Razor-bill
which, to the number of a dozen or more, had occurred on the Littleton