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districts, and he had only found two specimens. For the genus Clausilia
he had been searching, and felt sure it existed in the district, as he once
found after a flood one broken shell of (C. rugosa (?) washed down into
the river at Barking Side, but he had not met with a perfect shell. He
might also add that, without opening up the old and vexed question
whether Helix nemoralis and H. hortensis were distinct species, he had
found with Mr. Laver that where one was common the other was not.
He had examined that year some 500 or GOO specimens of the former at
Barking Side and found not a single white-lip, while at Leytonstone
and other places he could always find hortensis and never a brown-lip.
A paper by Professor Boulger "On the River-basins of Essex as
Natural-history provinces," being an appendix to his paper read at the
Chelmsford Meeting, was read [Transactions, ii. 79.] The paper was
accompanied by a sketch map of the county, showing proposed natural-
history provinces, and the author requested the kind assistance of resi-
dents and others in determining the nomenclature of various small
streams which were unnamed in any maps to which he had access.
Various observations respecting the maps of the county and other
sources of information were made by Messrs. Fisher Unwin and Crouch,
and cordial votes of thanks were passed to Mr. Laver and Prof. Boulger
for their papers.
The President referred to the Conference of Local Scientific Societies
held at the York Meeting of the British Association, which he had
attended as delegate on behalf of the Club. Suggestions had been made
as to work which could be carried on by local societies, but speaking on
behalf of their own Club he thought that the line of action they had
adopted would give the society plenty of good opportunities for work
during the next few years.
At the Conversazione, Mr. Oxley, F.R.M.S., exhibited a fine series of
doubly-stained sections of various vegetable stems under the microscope;
Mr. English a long series of fresh specimens of Fungi, named and
arranged with great care, including a specimen of the rare Helvella
lacunosa from Epping Forest; Mr. W. Crouch a long series of "varieties"
or aberrations of Helix aspersa and nemoralis; and Mr. Oldham some
specimens of sand strata from Ipswich.
Saturday, October 1st, 1881.—Annual Cryptogamic Meeting, and
Ordinary Meeting.
[Mr, Worthington Smith has kindly allowed us to use the humorous
report of our Meeting, written by him for the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' of
October 8th, 1881. A few necessary additions and alterations have been
inserted, but in the main the report is in Mr. Smith's own leonis. The list
of Mosses, Hepaticae, and Lichens, is given on the authority of Mr. E. M.
Holmes, F.L.S.—Ed.]