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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
penny of Henry II—III, which he had found there at a depth of 11/2 to
2 feet from the surface.
Mr. Ross showed and described various mycetozoans collected by him
this autumn in Epping Forest, in all totalling 26 forms.
Mr. Hugh Main sent for exhibition specimens illustrating the life-
history of the ichneumon flies (Microgaster spp.) which parasitise the
caterpillars of the Large White Butterfly.
Mr. Crouch showed several prints of Woodford and some plans of the
former seating arrangements in the Woodford parish church.
Mr. Scourfield exhibited specimens of Daphnia obtusa, including some
thirty young which had hatched out only that same morning.
He also showed a specimen of Rhynie Chert from Aberdeen, a rock
found to be full of plant remains, also a primitive crustacean and other
problematical animal remains, all of mid-Devonian age.
He also exhibited Ricciocarpus natans, still flourishing after two years
in a small glass tray.
Miss Prince exhibited her collection of mounted phanerogams—all
somewhat rare species—found by her at Felixstowe, Guernsey and the
Gower peninsula in South Wales.
Mr. Syms showed a living example of the earwig. Apterygida albipennis,
a rare British species found in Kent, Essex and East Anglia.
Mrs. Hatley showed watercolours and colour-prints by the late Mr.
Giles, of Newport, whose studio was visited by the Club some years ago.
She presented five of the colour-prints to the Club's Museum.
Mr. Thompson exhibited a herbarium—specimen of Alnus glutinosa var.
laciniata, the Cut-leaved Alder, from a plantation at Marlow, Bucks.;
also various post-card views of Essex villages.
The final half-hour was devoted to social gossip, and examination of
the various exhibits; and the meeting closed at 4 o'clock.
ORDINARY MEETING (810th MEETING).
SATURDAY, JANUARY 27TH, 1940.
This Meeting was held in the Small Lecture Hall of the Woodford
Congregational Church at 2 o'clock on the above date, with the President,
Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in the chair. Despite the Arctic weather
now being experienced, with thick snow everywhere, twenty-three members
were in attendance, a praiseworthy muster in the circumstances.
The minutes of the meeting held on December 2nd last were read
and confirmed.
Mr. J. Ross exhibited various "flies" bred from oak-galls taken in
Epping Forest in the autumn of 1938, and only recently emerged there-
from.
He also showed a twig of Hawthorn, with buds bursting, gathered
recently in the Forest, notwithstanding the severe weather.
Mr. D. J. Scourfield exhibited a cleverly-executed watercolor sketch,
of topical interest, by the late Mr. C. Soar : it was humorously entitled
''Nature's Air Raid Shelter," and depicted various beetles, caterpillars,
etc., taking shelter under the pileus of a toadstool from the swoop of a huge
predatory dragonfly overhead.