x Journal of Proceedings.
in seconding the proposal, said that the author of the paper had opened
up a question of great interest and importance ; Mr. Spurrell was one of
the two or three men in England who were competent to write upon the
blank page between the Glacial Period and the appearance of the land
now.
Mr. R. M. Christy read a paper entitled "Notes on a Post Tertiary
Deposit in the Can Valley, with additional remarks on similar deposits
in Essex, by W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., of The Geological Survey." The
paper was illustrated with diagrams and sections.
A brief discussion followed the reading of the paper, in which Mr.
Meldola, the Rev. W. Linton Wilson, and the President took part, and
hearty votes of thanks were accorded to the authors for their com-
munications.
At the Conversazione Mr. T. Fisher Unwin exhibited his extensive
collection of engravings and other views in the County of Essex, which
were much admired.
Saturday, April 28th, 1883.
The thirty-eighth Ordinary Meeting of the Club was held at the
Head-quarters at 7 o'clock, the President in the chair.
Donations of pamphlets were announced from Prof. Boulger, Messrs.
W. Cole, J. E. Harting, T. V. Holmes, and B. Meldola. And for the
Museum specimens of the "Monk" or "Angel Fish" (Squalus
squatina, L.) and of the Curlew from Harwich, by Mr. G. P. Hope.
Miss L. J. Hallett, Mrs. Kibble, Mrs. W. F. Kibble, and Mr. E. A.
Simons, were elected members of the Club.
The President then gave an appreciative obituary notice of Mr. G. S.
Gibson, the well-known Essex botanist, who died on the 5th of April.
The speaker referred to Mr. Gibson's many high qualities as a
naturalist and philanthropist. His "Flora of Essex" was one of the
best works of its day as a county monograph, and Mr. Gibson's efforts
to spread a taste for and knowledge of Natural Science in Essex by the
renovation of the Saffron Walden Museum, and the encouragement of
investigation in many ways, deserved the highest praise.
Mr. Charlesworth, F.G.S., also referred to Mr. Gibson's scientific
labours, and the valuable collection of Crag fossils and Mollusca formed
by him.
On the motion of Mr. Meldola, the Secretary was requested to convey
to Mrs. Gibson the respectful sympathy and condolence of the Council
and Members of the Club on the death of our esteemed member.
Mr. W. Cole exhibited a specimen of the black variety of the Common
Adder (Pelias berus, L.), "var. δ" of Jenyns (' Manual of Brit. Vert.
Animals,' p. 298). This specimen had been brought to him, with a
number of vipers and common snakes, by Willingale, of Loughton, who