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petals of which will afford a problem in another season for the local
Darwinians. Bound about was abundance of the historic needle-whin
(Genista Anglica), and this spot afforded an agreeable finish to the day's
botanizing. Among the other plants noticed during the day were,
Achillea ptarmica, Hypericum perforatum, humifusum, and pulchrum,
Epilobium hirsutum and obscurum, Geranium dissectum, the two pretty
legume bearers, Lotus major and corniculatus; and our note-books
contained entries of more than one hundred plants. After witnessing
the "polo" play on Epping Plain, and examining Mr. English's old-
fashioned garden of hardy plants, his preserved Fungi and other
specimens, we betook ourselves to the station, which we left in a heavy
fall of rain and—a somewhat crowded condition.
Saturday, August 13th, 1881.—Field Meeting and Ordinary Meeting.
A Visit to Chelmsford and Danbury.*
It afforded the Council great pleasure to hold a Field Meeting in
conjunction with the subscribers to the "Essex and Chelmsford Museum,"
as tending to promote those feelings of good-fellowship and mutual
encouragement which should prevail between societies having objects so
much in common—the diffusion of a taste for the study of Science and
increasing the opportunities for intellectual recreation in the county.
Mr. Edmund Durrant, Hon. Secretary to the "Museum," took great
interest in the affair, and to his kind exertions much of the success of the
meeting was due.
The weather was not so genial as could be wished. On the Friday
preceding the meeting the rain came down heavily all day, and made the
prospect of Saturday anything but cheering. Saturday itself opened dull
and threatening, and later on it fulfilled its threat by an occasional
shower, which, however, did very little to disturb the day's enjoyment.
Still it was a chilly day, and the lowering skies did not show the country
at its best. The untoward weather had the effect of keeping at home a
great many members of the Essex Field Club who would otherwise have
gone to Chelmsford, but, nevertheless, a fair number assembled at
Liverpool Street Station in the morning, and went down to the county-
town by the 10 a.m. express train. The Club was for the first time
enabled to take advantage of the concession of the Directors of the Great
Eastern Railway Company, by which members are allowed to purchase a
return-ticket at a single fare from the Liverpool Street, Buckhurst Hill,
Woodford, or Stratford Stations, to any given station on the railway in
* The Proprietors of the 'Essex Times,' the ' Essex "Weekly News,' the 'Chelmsford
Chronicle,' and the ' Essex Herald' sent representatives to this Meeting, and the several
newspapers for the week finding August 20th contained lengthy and excellent reports of
the same. The two first-mentioned papers printed Mr, Chancellor's memoir in extenso.
—Ed.