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Mr. Syms gave an account of his experiences in breeding Crickets in captivity,
illustrating his remarks by preserved specimens of the Mole Cricket, the Field
Cricket, the House Cricket and the Wood Cricket.
Photographs from the Pictorial Survey, showing old-time Loughton, were on
view in the meeting room.
ORDINARY MEETING (833rd Meeting).
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27TH, 1943.
This meeting was held at "Brooklands," 37, Churchfields, Woodford, at 2 o'clock
on the above afternoon. About 30 members attended. The President was in
the chair.
The following were elected Members of the Club :—
Miss Beryl F. Bailey, of 17, Monkham's Drive, Woodford Green.
Mrs. M. S. Reynolds, of "Pemberley," Tycehurst Hill, Loughton.
Mr. R. Holdsworth, of 38, Coventry Road, Ilford.
The meeting was devoted to special exhibits by members.
Miss G. Lister exhibited, and presented to the Stratford Museum, the identical
Noctule Bat which in 1857 was used by Joseph, afterwards Lord, Lister in his
observations on the early stages of inflammation of the blood. The Curator
expressed his thanks to the donor and his sense of the honour conferred upon
the Museum by the many gifts associated with her uncle's scientific pursuits which
Miss Lister had, from time to time, handed over to his keeping.
Miss Flower showed photographs illustrating the stages of growth in a nestling
Kestrel which she had kept for some three weeks after it had fallen from the nest,
at the end of which time it was able to fly up and rejoin the mother-bird.
Miss Prince exhibited various herbarium plants characteristic of sandy soil,
especially on the coast.
Miss Bengough showed a polished section through an old-time elm water-main
excavated in Shoreditch, London.
Mr. Main exhibited and discussed some specimens of a yellow variety of the
Green-veined White Butterfly (P. napi ab. citronea), first found in Donegal about
the year 1910. He also showed living larvae of the Glowworm Beetle and of the
"Silver Fish" (Lepisma saccharina).
Dr. Jane and his colleague, Mr. Woodhead, sent living specimens of aquatic
plants from Snowdonia to illustrate the modification in form to suit the environ-
ment which they exhibit : the plants sent were Isoetes lacustris (a pteridophyte),
Scirpus palustris (N.O. Cyperaceae), Littorella uniflora (N.O. Plantaginaceae),
Lobelia Dortmanna (N.O. Lobeliaceae), and Subularia aquatica (N.O. Crucifeae).
Although these plants are of such widely different families they all show a remark-
able similarity of habit.
Mr. Syms showed a series of blood-sucking Dipterous flies and described the
life-histories of certain forms.
Mr. Graddon sent an account of two discomycetous fungi hitherto unrecorded
from Essex : they are Ascozonus Leveilleanus and Ascophanus ochraceus and had
been sent him from Epping Forest, growing on deer-dung.
Mr. Ross exhibited the myxomycete Perichaena vermicularis growing on
decayed elm leaves, also various oak-gall hymenoptera which he had bred out of
the gall.
The Curator showed various Essex prints and a "Grangerised" copy of
Ogborne's "History of Essex," 1814, which had recently been presented to the
Museum by Mr. R. D. Stoneham.
Mr. Crouch read an account of the life of Jeremiah Dummer (1681-1739),
about whom little is known, although he was an Essex worthy, resident at Plaistow
and buried in West Ham Church.
Dr. Heeley sent spirit-specimens of various common soil-pests, such as leather-
jackets, wireworms and cut-worms, with a description of each form.
The meeting was adjourned at 4 o'clock.
ANNUAL MEETING (834th Meeting),
SATURDAY, 27TH MARCH, 1943.
This meeting was held, as usual, at "Brooklands," 37, Churchfields, Woodford
at 2 o'clock, some 34 members attending. The President was in the chair.
Mr. Philip Osborne, of 10, Hall Road, Leyton, E.15, was elected a member of
the Club.