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arrangements could be made, the meeting would take place. A Field
Meeting would be held on June 5th, in Monk's Wood, with Dr. M. C.
Cooke, M.A., &c, as conductor; also one on 19th June in conjunction
with the New Cross Microscopical Society. In July Mr. Walker would
accompany a Field Meeting to some spot of geological interest; and
Professor Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S., &c, had also offered his valuable
services as a botanist. Particulars of these meetings would be
announced in the usual way.
The vote of thanks having been carried by acclamation, Mr. Walker
said that his best reward was the knowledge that so strong and pros-
perous a Field Club had been established in Essex. He had had much
experience in connection with Field Clubs and Natural History Socie-
ties, and therefore spoke with authority in expressing the pleasure he
had derived at finding a club so vigorous and determined to succeed,
starting on its course of pleasant usefulness.
The usual Conversazione took place at the Head-quarters of the Club,
3, St. John's Terrace, where tea and coffee were served. Mr. Wake-
field exhibited some beautiful specimens of Agates, Fossil Sponges,
Corals, &c, cut and polished; also a fine stone Celt, dredged up from
the River Lea, near Waltham Abbey. Mr. W. White, two species of
Stigmaria from the Coal Measures. Rev. W. Linton Wilson, various
specimens of animal and vegetable "Pond Life," including Lissotriton
punctatus and Triton cristatus (Newts), three species of Lemna from
Chigwell, and many Water-beetles, &c. Messrs. W. and B. G. Cole,
a box of insects from Monk's Wood, taken and bred in April and May,
1880. Mr. J. Gibbs, specimens of the abnormal Cardamine pratensis
described in a paper recently communicated to the Club (Trans. Vol. L,
p. 64). Mr. English, fine specimens of Polyporus squamosus; a hen
Blackbird with plumage resembling a Thrush, and other specimens.
Saturday, June 5th, 1880.—Field Meeting.
The announcement of a Field Meeting in Monk's Woods, with
Dr. M. C. Cooke, M.A., A.L.S., &c, as botanical conductor, attracted
a large number of members and friends, nearly eighty ladies and
gentlemen assembling at Loughton Station on arrival of the 2.13 p.m.
train from Fenchurch Street. The weather, changeable during the
morning, had then become more settled,, and gave some promise
of a fine afternoon. The party was soon in motion, the route chosen
being over Staple's Hill, and so at once into the greenwood. There
were present Mr. B. H. Cowper, the discoverer, and Mr W. D'Oyley,
the surveyor, of the Loughton "Camp"—a spot which may have
been associated with Queen Boadicea, and the final struggle of the