with guiacum. The use of chemicals as an aid to field
identification is clearly set out in the key.
I am also grateful to Mr. D. Pegler at Kew for his help
in naming our unidentified specimens after the foray,
especially as amongst these he found Cerrena unicolor, rated
as rare by Pearson, and not recorded since. I have always
felt that some of our best foray records are lost to the
dustbin and that the extent of our records is limited by the
skill and experience of our recorders.
All the above records relate to the Epping Forest area.
Apart from a few records from Kibby for the Rainham area, I
have no other records. 
Doreen J. Boardman
November 14th. Dinosaur Hunt - Crystal Palace (Geology)
The expedition was launched on what must have been
the wettest day for many years, indeed only five intrepid
Geology Group Adventurers arrived at Crystal Palace to begin
the hunt. The remaining members of the group were assumed
drowned or lost in the chaos of Lewisham High Street.
The rain enhanced the realism of these concrete monsters,
still strangely menacing midst the trees on their islands
where they have stood since 1854. Constructed by the
sculptor, Waterhouse Hawkins, under the scientific guidance
of Sir Richard Owen, the father of modern Palaeontology,
who himself gave us the word 'dinosaur', the models are a
genuine attempt at reconstructing the animals living
appearance. A dramatic grand banquet was held in the half-
constructed Iguanodon by Hawkins on New Years Eve, 1853, to
celebrate the imminent completion of the project with 20
guests round a table in the animal's body, and Professor Owen
as guest of honour seated within the skull at the head of the
table. The company feasted until midnight, with much jollity
'neath an awning of pink and white drapery hung with penants
bearing the names of Owen, Mantell, Buckland and other
leading prehistorians of the day.
Time has, however, proved these reconstructions
inaccurate in some respects. The Iguanodon, for example,
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