THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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ORDINARY MEETING (800th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 28TH JANUARY, 1939.
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, in the
chair. Forty-four attended.
Mr. J. H. G. Peterken, of 73, Forest Drive East, Leytonstone, E.11,
and Mr. Henry P. Underwood (Junior Member), of 18, Grange Park Road,
Leyton, E.10, were elected members of the Club.
Mr. Scourfield exhibited a living Hydra vulgaris from Wanstead Park
and described its structure by means of a lantern slide and microscopic
preparation.
Mr. Salmon made an appeal for the formation of village museums,
and suggested methods of organisation and arrangement. Thanks were
passed to Mr. Salmon for his communication.
On behalf of Mr. Ross, who was absent owing to indisposition, the
Hon. Secretary read an account of a newly-recorded myxomycete,
Perichaena pedata G. Lister, found by him on Warren Hill in Epping
Forest on 3rd December last: specimens of the new form, and of other
myxomycetes, were on exhibition.
The Curator showed 26 photographs of Wanstead from the Pictorial
Survey collection.
The President gave an account of a much-named Lepiota, L. brunneo-
incarnata, which was first found in this country in November, 1920, by
an old member of the club, Mr. C. H. Steet, at Chingford : the original
specimen, now in the national collection, was shown to the meeting.
The President then called upon Mrs. A. R. Hatley, who gave an
exhaustive account of the history of "The Walnuts," an old house in Church
Lane, Walthamstow, which was demolished last year. The lecturer
illustrated her description by a large number of lantern views, photographs
and drawings and, at the close, was complimented on the diligence and
enthusiasm shown in gathering so much information concerning the
building.
ORDINARY MEETING (801st MEETING).
SATURDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1939.
This meeting was held, as usual, in the Physics Lecture Theatre of
the West Ham Municipal College, Stratford, at 3 o'clock on the above date,
with the President, Dr. J. Ramsbottom, O.B.E., Pres. L.S., Dr.Sc, in
the chair. Thirty-six attended.
Miss Emily M. Parsons, of 12, Meadway, Buckhurst Hill, Essex,
was elected a member.
In anticipation of the Annual Meeting the following nominations
were made:—
The President announced that the Council nominated Mr. S. Hazzledine
Warren, F.G.S., as his successor in the office of President.