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At the end of the visit, Mr. T. H. C. Bartrop expressed thanks on behalf
of those present to Dr. Cole and his staff for arranging such a wonderful
display of the work of the Laboratory. This had obviously meant not only
their presence there that Sunday morning but also many hours of earlier
preparation in organising, collecting, displaying and labelling. These
thanks were echoed by the whole party.
Members then went on to the sea-wall for lunch, and a report was later
received that there had been a steady colonisation westward of suitable
picnic sites. During the afternoon, when the weather continued fine and
warm, members were free to do their own collecting and field work, and at
4.15 p.m. the party assembled at "The Ship" in the High Street for a
welcome tea.
At a formal meeting held immediately afterwards, with Mr. C. B. Pratt
in the chair, thanks were expressed to Mr. and Mrs. Bartrop for organising
this most successful meeting.
Miss B. M. Riordan, of 107, Barley Lane, Goodmayes, was elected a
junior member of the Club.
Mr. Syms gave a report on what he had seen during a walk along the
river to Creeksea. The larvae seen included those of the Ground Lackey,
Small Eggar, Fox moth and a few Brown Tail moths. Mr. Dyce mentioned
that he had seen Small. Heath, Small White and Meadow Brown butterflies.
Miss Johnson had recorded 86 flowering plants in the restricted habitat
of the sea-wall and its vicinity. They included the two vetches, Vicia
hirsuta and V. tetrasperma, and the Grass Vetchling, Lathyrus Nissolia.
She exhibited a grotesquely fasciated specimen of the Sea Beet.
The Chairman commented on the birds which had been seen, and the
list was added to by Mr. Parker. The Chairman mentioned the wonderful
abundance and perfection of the grasses in flower at this time, and he asked
Dr. Alvin to comment on some of the species seen. It was suggested that
there might be an opportunity for some further study of the grasses on the
way home.
On the return journey, when a stop was made fo pay a short visit to the
Church of St. Michael at Latchingdon, many members indulged in a minia-
ture Grasses Foray, and a suggestion was made that the Club should
consider holding such a foray another season. Much interest had certainly
been aroused among the members in these important and beautiful plants.
Great Bardfield (978th Meeting)
Joint Meeting with the Great Bardfield Historical Association
SATURDAY, 16 JULY, 1955
A motor-coach left Wanstead at 9.15 a.m. to visit some of the most
beautiful and historical villages in the Dunmow and Freshwell Hundreds,
where there would be plenty to satisfy both the historical and botanical
interests of the members.
Miss 0. M. Snow, who organised the meeting, has given us the following
notes on the places visited.
little Dunmow. The Dunmow Flitch Church of St. Mary is part of the
Priory of Juga Baynard, 1199. We discovered that the original Dunmow
Flitch chair had been made from one of the pews of the Priory, and that