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of engravings, water-colour drawings, &c, were there shown by Mr.
Unwin, to illustrate his remarks at the church. They all related to the
scenes and mansions in the neighbourhood of Chigwell, and included two
or three of the magnificent Fairlop Oak to which the eccentric bookmaker,
John Day—the author of ' Sandford and Merton,' by the bye—paid so
many pilgrimages. One of them was very curious, being a lithograph on
India-paper and dated 1811—some half-dozen years earlier than the date
at which Mr. Ackarmann introduced the art from Germany into England,
where, however, it had partially become known before Ackermann made
its employment general. Mr. Unwin's portfolio also contained a number
of old maps of Essex, and old coaching road maps, in which the existence
of "a smith's shop" was always carefully denoted. One of the maps of
Essex was a German map of about the year 1600. On the back of it was
part of the account of Essex, in German, and it was curious to note the
geographer's description of Leyton as at that time a small village, five miles
from London, and consisting of a few houses strewed here and there.
Mr. Oxley, Mr. Letchford, and Mr. Saville Kent showed several forms of
microscopic life under the microscope, being the results of the various
"dippings" taken during the afternoon; but the finds were meagre,
compared with the hauls to be expected at the hands of these experienced
pond-hunters on favourable occasions. The specimens exhibited, however,
served to illustrate several points in Mr. Kent's paper.
After tea an Ordinary Meeting (the seventeenth) was held, the President
in the chair. The following were elected members of the Club:—Miss
Jessie Combs, Prof. Gardner, M.A., P.S.A. (Disney Professor of Archae-
ology, Cambridge), Rev. E. Stanway Jackson, W. T. Latter, Mus. B.,
R.A.M., Mrs. Meldola, G. R. Noble, G. T. Bead, W. J. Glumes Boss, B.Sc,
Henry Stear, M.R.C.S., Griffiths Smith, F.R.G.S., E. T. Stringer, George
Unwin, P. W. Wall, M. Inst, C.E., P.G.S., T. Westhorp, Mrs. Lewis
Winter, and Rev. A. B. Bingham Wright, M.A.
Mr. Saville Kent then read his paper entitled, "Infusoria: What are
they ? Their Collection and Investigation" [Transactions, ii., 44]. The
paper was amply illustrated by figures of the various forms noticed, and
a hearty vote of thanks was given to the author by acclamation. A short
discussion ensued on some points springing out of the paper, in which
the President, Mr. Henry Walker, and the author took part,
The President announced, amid much applause, that the work of
excavation at Ambresbury Banks had been performed, and entered into
some details of the results obtained. He then said that he had a very
pleasing duty to perform, and that was to call upon the members of the
Club to return their very warmest thanks to their excellent Vice-President,
the Rev. W. Linton Wilson, and to Mrs. Wilson, for their very hospitable
and kind reception of the Society that afternoon. (Loud cheers.)
The Rev. W. Linton Wilson said that he was sure the members of the
Club already knew that it was his and Mrs. Wilson's greatest pleasure
to receive them that day. He concluded by saying that, seeing Mr.