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These latter were exhibited under microscopes kindly brought by Mr. F.
Oxley, Mr. Letchford, Mr. Christian, Mr. Walter Crouch, Mr. F. W.
Elliott, and Mr. Livingstone.*
Mr. Rowe pointed out that these rocks did not belong to Essex, but
must have been introduced by the glacier which covered the county in
the Glacial Period. After dealing with the evidence of the direction of
glacial current, he passed on to give details of the structure of the rocks
and to compare them with the structure of similar rocks in the Midland
Counties of England, in the North and North-Western Counties of
England, in the northern parts of Scotland, and in Norway and Sweden.
He came to the conclusion that they had been brought from Scandinavia.
The President, Mr. White, Mr. Robarts, and Mr. Meldola took part in
the discussion which followed the reading of the paper (mainly concern-
ing the direction from which the Drift flow had traversed the county),
for which a cordial vote of thanks was given to Mr. Rowe.
The Hon. Secretary then read a paper by Mr. J. C. Shenstone,
F.R.M.S., on " Additional Notes on the Flora of the Neighbourhood of
Colchester." The paper was supplemental to that read by him before
the Club at their Field Meeting at Colchester and Mersea on the 24th
of May last year. Mr. Shenstone announced that he was able to record
four plants not previously known in that neighbourhood, among them
being the true samphire, which, however, he regarded as an introduction.
[See ' Essex Naturalist,' vol. i., pp. 22-35.]
Mr. Cole made some remarks upon the introduction of Claytonia
perfoliata into Essex in recent years.
A vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Shenstone, and the meeting
resolved itself into the usual conversazione, at. which, in addition to the
exhibits already referred to, Mr. F. Challis showed some rock specimens
from Chelmsford, and Mr White a collection of South African Lepidop-
tera, containing some very scarce forms.
Saturday, April 18th, 1885. Field Meeting in the East
Ham and Barking Districts.
Mr. and Mrs. Royle having kindly asked the Club to visit them at
West Ham, advantage was taken to hold a Field Meeting in the neigh-
bourhood, under the conductorship of Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S., Mr.
Henry Walker, F.G.S., and Mr. W. Cole. Conveyances were in attend-
ance at Stratford Station at half-past two, many members coming in
drags from Buckhurst Hill, Woodford, Snaresbrook, &c, the assembled
party being a very large one.
Driving past West Ham Church and through West Ham Park, looking
quite beautiful with first burst of Spring, way was taken along Green
* Mr. Rowe's paper was subsequently withdrawn and published in the ' Quarterly
Journal of the Geological Society ' for August, 1887, pp. 351-363, under the title of
" On the Rocks of the Essex Drift."—Ed.