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found feeding on Laurustinus and some found on Lilac. The cater-
pillars on the Laurustinus were of a much darker green colour than the
Lilac feeders, which latter were of a pale bluish-green, although the
leaves of the two plants on which they fed did not much differ in depth
of tint.
Mr. N. F. Robarts, F.G.S., exhibited some fossil corals and shells
which he had lately obtained from the Carboniferous or Mountain
Limestone at Llangollen, North Wales. He gave a brief exposition of
the fossils and the characteristics of the formation in which they occur.
The President announced that two Forest Field Meetings were in
course of arrangement: one in September, under the direction of Pro-
fessor Boulger, F.L.S., for the observation, more particularly, of the
autumnal flowering plants of the Forest, when the Professor would
deliver an address on "Botanical work to be done;" and the other
on October 2nd, when two celebrated Fungologists, Dr. M. C. Cooke
and Mr. Worthington Smith, F.L.S., would expound the rich Crypto-
gamic flora of the Epping woods.
At the Conversazione, Mr. English exhibited an extensive and beau-
tiful series of the larger Fungi, gathered the previous afternoon in the
woods above Epping. The collection included many rare species, as
Boletus totanus, Thelephora clavicularis (a new species within the last four
or five years), and Gyromitra esculenta, the plant exhibited being only the
second Epping Forest specimen known, &c, &c. He also brought up a
specimen of the pretty and rare Snapdragon (Linaria spuria) from
Epping. Mr. H. J. Barnes exhibited a fine fossil Echinus in flint, from
the "Cuckoo Oak" Gravel Pits, Fairmead Bottom. Messrs. W. and
B. G. Cole showed a number of living specimens of characteristic
littoral plants, gathered the previous day on the "Saltings" at Bright-
lingsea, St. Osyth, &c, Essex, and also a long series of the British
Geometrae, from their cabinet.
Saturday, September 11th, 1880.—Field Meeting.
Our trysting place this afternoon is at Theydon Bois, and our pur-
pose is to note and examine the floral riches which early Autumn
scatters with lavish hand in hedgerow, field, lane, and coppice. During
the month of August no meeting had been held ; so many members, it
was thought, would be gratifying that yearly longing for sand and
shingle, and a gulp of the fresh breezes vexing old Neptune's restless
domain, which has struck so deeply into our modern insular life. So
this is our first reunion since we met at the Mammoth's grave at Ilford.
Our organizers had looked forward to a large and pleasant meeting, and
had secured the kind aid of our colleague, Professor Boulger, F.L.S.,