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Cooke, the Rev. Canon Du Port, Mr. W. Phillips, of Shrewsbury, Mr.
J. English, of Epping, and Mr. W. Cole, Hon. Sec., a thorough search
was made in Monk Wood, High Beach, and other parts of the forest,
with such good results that, although Fungi were scarce, as compared
with some former years, hundreds of examples were brought into the
large room at the " Roebuck Inn," at Buckhurst Hill, which was again
the head-quarters for the meeting. Here the Secretaries and several
members were busily engaged on the Friday evening and Saturday
morning in making preparations for the exhibition of the specimens.
The Fungi were named and arranged by Dr. Cooke, Mr. Phillips, Mr.
Worthington Smith, Dr. H. T. Wharton, and Canon Du Port, assisted by
other mycologists present, the party including (in addition to the botan-
ists mentioned above), Dr. Flaxman Spurrell, Rev. J. M. Crombie, Prof.
G. S. Boulger, Mr. T. Howse (of Guildford), Mr. Henry Groves, Mr. F.
J. Hanbury, Mr. W. W. Reeves, Mr. Vaughan Jennings, and many
others.
The weather on the Saturday was exceedingly fine, the woods were
at their best, and consequently all thoroughly enjoyed the ramble, the
meteorological conditions being such an agreeable change as compared
with the unpleasant downpour of rain experienced last year (ante pp.
xliii.-xlv.).
Mr. David Houston kindly lent a very extensive series of large wall
diagrams of various types of Fungi, Alga;, Lichens, and the principal
orders of Flowering plants. The numerous tables in the large room at
the inn were crowded with specimens, drawings and microscopes, in
addition to the long series of named specimens of fresh Fungi gathered
during the two days' explorations.
Among the more important exhibits were the following :—Mr.
Arthur Bennett, a large collection of species of the genus Sphagnum,
from Hanover ; Prof. G. S. Boulger, collection of Essex flowering plants ;
diagrams of Rhizocarpae ; Mr. Miller Christy, a collection of the Essex
species of Primula, with many aberrations, in illustration of his paper
in the ' Transactions ' (vol. iii., pp. 148-211) ; Rev. J. M. Crombie, the
collection of Lichens of Epping Forest, upon which his paper in our
'Transactions' was founded (Trans., vol. iv., pp. 50-75); Mr, James
English, a collection of the Mosses of Epping Forest; Messers. H and J.
Groves, British specimens of Bratrachium ; Mr. J. T. Powell, a collec-
tion of British Grasses, and specimens of rare Essex plants; Mr. John
Waller, a collection of Mosses, containing some Essex specimens ; Mr.
A. P. Wire, an old Herbarium of sixty years ago, containing some rare
species ; and many other single specimens of botanical interest, A very
large number of microscopes were contributed by Mr. C Thomas, Mr. F.
Oxley, Mr. R. Letchford, Mr. A. P. Wire. Mr. R. Paulson, Prof. Boulger,
Mr. W. Cole, Mr. W. H. Beeby, Mr. J. S Stacey, Mr. W T. Christian, Mr:
C. Livingstone,Mr. W.Forster, Mr, J. A. McKenzie, Mr. W. A. Martin,
and many other members, not only of the Club, but of other microscopical