lviii Journal of Proceedings.
[The Hackney Microscopical Society held a "Fungus Foray " on the
Chingford side of the Forest on the 13th of October, when the weather
was more propitious for collecting than on the unfortunate day chosen
by the Club. A record was kept of upwards of a hundred species of
Hymenomycetes seen and determined, many of which were, of course,
the common species met with at every forest foray. Dr. Cooke reports,
however, some interesting rarities, among them being a very peculiar
form of Boletus, somewhat intermediate between B. granulosus and B.
bovinus, and scarcely referable to either, which has been called B.
granulatus, var. tenuipes. Besides this was Ag. (Pleurotus) corticatus,
Ag. (Pholiota) terrigenus, and Ag. (Amanita) spissus. Several specimens
of Ag. (Clitocybe) cerussatus were found, and, proving agreeable to the
taste whilst raw, were cooked and eaten, thus adding another, and an
excellent one, to the list of edible species].
Saturday, October 27th, 1883. Ordinary Meeting.
The forty-third Ordinary Meeting was held at the head-quarters at 7
o'clock, the President in the chair.
Donations to the library were announced from Messrs. W. H. Gomm
(6 vols.), T. V. Holmes, T. Fisher Unwin, H. T. Wharton and W.
Whitaker; to the museum Mr. Harcourt presented a further consign-
ment of cases of forest flowers preserved by Mr. English, making in all
sixteen cases, Mr. Arthur Bennett an almost complete type collection of
British Characeae, and Mr. G. P. Hope some specimens of Algae from the
Harwich coast. Votes of thanks were passed to the donors.
The following were elected members of the Club:—Messrs. H. B.
Allen, Francis Greatheed, Scott B. Wilson, A. J. Brown, C. H. 0. Curtis,
Herbert L. Drew, Gerald Fitz-Gibbon, M. E. Swan, Harold Tinson, Dr.
Spurrell, Miss S. M. Good, Miss M. E. Knightly, and Miss Julia H.
Pitts.
Mr. W. White exhibited some specimens and cases of the larva of
Psychidae—probably Fumea radiella and F. nitidella—obtained during
the visit of the Club to Grays on June 16th last. He made some
observations on a supposed parasite which had emerged from one of the
cases. He also exhibited some cases containing living specimens of a
large North American species of Psychidae; they appeared to be all
females, and no small specimens had emerged out of a batch of fifty
cases.
Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell, F.G.S., read a paper on " Deneholes and their
relation to other Earthworks." The paper was illustrated by a long
series of wall diagrams, &c. Mr. Spurrell said that deneholes came
under a class of excavations which was well defined and could be
described as " deep caves with vertical entrances." The general plan
was a circumscribed cavern reached by a vertical well-like opening from
the surface. Such places, either of ancient or more modern construc-
tion, were found over the whole world. The habit of dwelling below the
surface was common in the early history of mankind. It had been said