THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB,
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Mrs. Eva M. Price, of 33, Mayfair Gardens, Woodford Green, Essex ;
Mr. Arthur Adrian Lisney, M.A., M.D., F.R.E.S., of The Red House,
Narborough, Leicestershire ; Mr. Alfred Stephen Noel, of 42, Woodcote
Road, Wanstead, E.11 ; Mr. Frank Capewell Vine, of "Wynbarrie," 37
The Uplands, Loughton, Essex, were elected to membership of the Club.
Mr. Ross exhibited specimens of Badhamia utricularis and other
mycetozoa from Epping Forest, and, by request of Miss Lister, asked
members to supply the dried plasmodia as opportunity offered, to replenish
her exhausted stock.
Mr. Covernton sent for exhibition examples of gun-flints picked up
in the fields about Finchingfield, also unused gun-flints made by the
Brandon knappers, and sundry prehistoric flakes from the Finchingfield
neighbourhood. The President, commenting on the exhibit, explained
the present-day method of manufacture practised at Brandon and the
different technique of earlier makers, both of these being illustrated by
the exhibit, which also included some strike-a-lights.
The Curator exhibited a dozen topographical photographs from the
Pictorial Survey collection, also various herbarium specimens of plants,
all intended to illustrate Miss Lister's paper on the flora of the Wanstead
Park district to be read later in the afternoon, and also several pen-and-ink
sketches by her of trees referred to in the paper.
Mr. Thompson read an account of the "Vermin Payments at Woodford
"in the 18th Century," to demonstrate the relative abundance of Polecats
in Epping Forest at that period.
A paper by Miss G. Lister, entitled "Notes on the Flora of Wanstead
Park," with a detailed List of over 300 species of plants now found to be
growing in that district, was read, in the author's absence, by the Hon.
Secretary : the paper was illustrated by the sketches, photographs and
specimens referred to above.
Mr. Crouch exhibited prints of Luxborough House, Chigwell, together
with portrait-prints of some of its earlier owners, as Sir John Hawkins,
Sir Edward Walpole, K.B., Admiral Sir Edward Hughes, K.B., Lady
Luxborough (wife of Baron Luxborough, son of Robert Knight,
another owner of the estate), and also book plates of James Crokatt
and James Hatch, other owners of this property. Mr. Crouch sketched
in outline the history of the estate from the 16th century down to its
demolition in the 18th century.
Thanks were passed to the readers of papers and to exhibitors, and
some time was spent in informal discussion of the various exhibits, the
meeting dispersing at 4 o'clock.