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mycetes and Mr. Thompson with his little company of lichen-seekers
made their way to the higher ground as best for their quest.
At shortly before 4 o'clock all these groups had rejoined at the Roser-
ville Retreat at High Beach for tea.
After tea, Mr. Scourfield, as chairman, invited the several conductors
to give an account of the results of their researches.
Mr. Sherrin reported a yield of 40 mosses, with, in addition, about a
dozen hepatics, which he considered to be a good result. He mentioned
that Barbula convoluta var. Sardoa had been noticed in a new station : in
view of the great scarcity of brick walls or stonework in the Forest this
was gratifying.
Mr. Ross was less pleased with his record of myxo's, only fourteen forms
having been found. He specially mentioned the occurrence of Lampro-
derma scintillans.
The Chairman reported on the algae met with, specially mentioning a
single specimen of Volvox and referring to Dr. (Miss) Pocock's recent
exhaustive article in the Journ. Quekett Club on the genus, and its new
record of V. tertius Meyer from Epping Forest, this form being charac-
terised by the absence of any protoplasmic connecting-threads between the
separate protoplasts. Mr. Scourfield exhibited a sample of pondwater
collected that day which was coloured bright-green by a free swimming
Chlamydomonas, and another brown-discoloured sample due to the presence
of a Peridinium.
Mr. Thompson announced a yield of 20 forms of lichens during the
Foray, including, as most noteworthy, Chaenotheca chrysocephala, a form
which grows on oak-trunks, the so-called "Reindeer Moss," Cladina
sylvatica, the equally misnamed "Iceland Moss," Cetraria aculeata, form
hispida, Cetraria glauca and Physcia orbicularis var. virella. He added
seme general remarks on the distribution of lichens.
Mr. F. G. Gould, on the invitation of the Chairman, reported on various
agarics collected during the day, which included a magnificent specimen of
the Blewitt, Tricholoma nudum, Hygrophorus eburneus, Pleurotus ostreatus,
and other showy forms. He considered that, owing to the mildness
of the season, the agarics were probably more frequent than they had
been a month earlier.
Thanks to the conductors concluded the meeting and the party dis-
persed .
ORDINARY MEETING (798th MEETING)
SATURDAY, 26TH NOVEMBER, 1938.
This Meeting was held at 3 o'clock on the above date in the Physics
Lecture Theatre of the West Ham Municipal College, Romford Road,
Stratford, with Dr. J. Ramsbottom, O.B.E., Pres. L.S., Dr.Sc, etc., Presi-
dent, in the chair. 47 persons attended.
Miss A. M. Willings, of 27, Ismailia Road, Forest Gate, E.7 ; Mr. W. B.
Crow, Ph.D., D.Sc., of the S.W. Essex Technical College, Walthamstow,
E.17 ; and Mr. H. W. Forster, of 57, Shrewsbury Road, Forest Gate, E.7,
were elected Members of the Club.