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diagrams. It was reported that a few of the worked flints had come
from beneath the Chalky Boulder Clay, out of a pit about a quarter of
a mile E. of Braintree railway station. [The evidence upon which this
conclusion rested was considered by the members present as somewhat
doubtful, and the President remarked that great caution should be
exercised in such matters. The specimens were afterwards submitted to
Mr. Worthington Smith, and in his opinion very many of the supposed
palaeoliths from the so-called Glacial Gravels were only natural stones
approaching an implement form, excepting a batch out of one pit, and
that pit might possibly be a pit of River-gravel. Further information
was much needed before any reliable conclusions could be drawn from
the specimens. Many of the Neolithic celts, knives, etc., in the collec-
tion were very fine, and it is to be hoped that a carefully compiled de-
scriptive list may be, at a future time, available for publication in our
journal —Ed.]
A very hearty vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Kenworthy and to
the other exhibitors for the great trouble they had taken in getting so
interesting a collection together, and sending it to the Glut) for the in-
spection of the members.
Prof. Meldola exhibited a very fine Neolithic stone implement which
he had bought from a labouring man in Scotland, and which was stated
to have been found in the neighbourhood of Braemar.
Prof. Boulger delivered an address on " Mosses and their allies, with
special reference to those of Essex," illustrating his remarks by speci-
mens and numerous drawings on the black-board.
In illustration of Prof. Boulger's address, Mr. English sent for
exhibition a complete set of the Mosses of Epping Forest collected by
himself, and comprising about 200 fine specimens.
A short discussion ensued, and a hearty vote of thanks was passed to
Prof. Boulger for his interesting address.
The usual conversazione concluded the meeting, at which, in addition
to the specimens above referred to, Mr. W. White exhibited a small col-
lection of Mosses from near Chichester, and Mr, C. Oldham a very beau-
tiful basket of fungi collected by himself that morning in the forest
near Woodford.
[In the circular calling the above meeting, which was very extensively
circulated among botanists outside the ranks of the Club, the following
statement, drawn up by the Secretary, was printed : —
Preservation of Native Plants.
The Club has always strongly deprecated the reckless gathering of
rare or local plants, and one of the original rules (Rule XXII.) was
especially framed with this intent. Latterly the evil has assumed a very
serious aspect, and it is patent to the most superficial observer that, many
of our rarest and most beautiful native plants have already been, or are
rapidly being, exterminated by professional plant-hunters, or by "hay-