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Journal of Proceedings.
Bernard T. Halford, B.Sc, Charles J. Leaf, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S.,
F. H. Meggy, Mrs. Marshall, F. G. Newman, Frederick Oliphant, George
Rees, Simeon Warburg, and Compton Warner.
Mr. Lockyer announced that Mr. Fletcher, President of the Ottawa
Naturalists' Field Club, would be happy to send specimens of Canadian
plants to any member wishing to study them.
The Secretary called attention to the work which is being done by the
Essex Bee-keepers' Association, and distributed some copies of the
prospectus and rules of that Society.
Mr. B, G. Cole exhibited a specimen of Abraxas Ulmata, taken by
himself in Bury Wood, Epping Forest, last July. He had not previously
heard of the occurrence of the moth in the Forest. Mr. Cansdale
informed him that the species had been taken at St. Osyth, Essex. He
also exhibited a remarkably small specimen of Liparis auriflua (the
Gold-tailed Moth), taken at large near Loughton, in July last. This
dwarf was less than half the normal size of the species.
Mr. H. A. Cole exhibited and presented to the Museum two worked
flints which he had recently found. The most perfect one was from
Great Parndon, Essex. Near that village he had come upon a heap of
stones which had been picked off the neighbouring fields. This heap
contained a considerable number of ordinary glacial fossils, Gryphea,
Echinus, lumps of lime-stone, Ae., with chalk-flints and fragments of
rock of various kinds. On carefully searching the heap he had found a
flint bearing evident marks of human workmanship. Judging from its
form it had probably been hafted to a handle and used as an adze in
agricultural operations. The specimen had been shown to Dr. Evans and
General Pitt-Rivers. The second flint Mr. Cole had picked up in the
Epping New Road, near High Beach, from a heap of gravel by the road-
side, which had probably been dug from the Forest pits close by. The
celt was a very rude one, and was quite white upon its surface, an appear-
ance probably due to aqueous action, the soluble particles having been
removed by the infiltration of water through the body of the flint, while
the insoluble portions had been left in a finely divided state, and conse-
quently reflected white light.
The President said that those disposed to hunt for these interesting
relics of a time long past might take a hint from these finds of Mr. Cole.
The last remnants of the "Stone Age" were to be found scattered over
the surface of the country in ploughed fields, &c, and as stones were
often gathered by farmers from the fields, it might be profitable to
submit the spoil-heaps to a rigorous examination when found in suitable
localities. 
Mr. W. Cole showed several species of Coleoptera, including the scarce
Rose-beetle, Gnorimus nobilis, which he had found on bramble blossom in
Lodge Bushes, Epping Forest, in July last. He also exhibited some
specimens of Essex insects, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, &c, sent
by Mr. Billups to illustrate the modern methods of preparing insects for