REPORTS OF MEETINGS 303
As President : Mr. Laurence S. Harley, B.Sc, M.I.E.E.
As Hon. Treasurer : Mr. F. C. Wickson, B.Sc. (Econ.).
As Joint Hon. Secretaries : Messrs. W. J. Foster, LL.B, and Bernard T.
Ward.
As Joint Hon. Field Meetings Secretaries : Mr. and Mrs. Richard Ward.
As Hon. Curator, Essex Museum : Mr. E. E. Syms, F.R.E.S., F.Z.S.
As Hon. Curator, Epping Forest Museum : Mr. Bernard T. Ward.
As Hon. Librarian : Mr. C. Hall Crouch, F.S.G.
As Hon. Editor : Mr. C. Bignell Pratt.
As Hon. Assistant Secretary and Hon. Assistant Librarian: Miss Elsie A.
Greaves.
No further nominations were made by members.
The President then announced that the Council had appointed Mr. C.
Hall Crouch, as Auditor. As members had not appointed their Auditor at
the previous meeting, he requested that this should now be done.
On the motion of Mr. E. F. Williams, seconded by Mr. Paul Williams,
Mr. J. W. Dyce, was appointed as the members' Auditor.
Mr. Howard showed flowers of the American Sugar Maple (Acer sac-
charum) gathered during the informal meeting of the Club in Epping Forest
on the previous Thursday. These were from a well-grown tree planted near
The Warren, Loughton.
The Curator exhibited herbarium sheets of various docks and sorrels
from the Museum collection.
Mr. J. E. Lousley, Treasurer of the Botanical Society of the British Isles,
then read his paper on "The Docks and Sorrels of Essex" (see p. 265).
The paper was illustrated by excellent colour and monochrome photographic
lantern slides, taken by the author. He stated that fifteen species, of which
ten are reputed native to Britain, are at present known from Essex.
This lecture, by an authority on the subject, was of such a nature as to
be interesting, not only to botanists, but to all nature lovers.
At the conclusion, a number of questions were asked, and dealt with by
the lecturer, and on the motion of the President, a hearty vote of thanks
was accorded to Mr. Lousley for his paper.
Members then took tea in the Refectory of the College.
A Neolithic Journey (918th Meeting)
SATURDAY, 11 MARCH 1950
Under a sombre sky, some thirty members and friends boarded a coach
at Woodford Green on this Saturday morning.
With the guidance of Dr. and Mrs. Rudge, the party set out to examine
the evidence of a neolithic trackway put forward by Dr. Rudge in his paper
read to the Club in October 1949.
Driving up the Lea Valley past Fishers Green farm, the first stop was made
at Holyfield to inspect what may be regarded as the type specimen of the
conglomerate stones described. Leaving this site, the coach ran by Nazeing,
Long Green, and on to Chambers Manor farm by permission of Mr. G. C.
Padfield. At this point, the party was joined by Mr. H. B. Kemsley. A
stone discovered by Mr. Percy Thompson, in 1912, was examined where it
now lay, broken into several pieces.
From this point the members rode on to Cobbins Brook to see an example
of the mound and causeway sites, led by Mr. Kemsley—"... and all his men
look'd at each other with a wild surmise ..." though anything but silent.
A short walk up the road brought the party to Hayleys Manor farm where a
further free-standing stone was noted.