Plate III. The annual fungus foray is a regular feature of the Club's programme.
Here, William Cole, founder and first secretary of the Essex Field Club, sub-
mits a specimen to the 'referee' George Massee, of the Kew Museum, for
identification. From a photograph first published in 1910.
meetings, usually five annually from April to September, with the celebrated
Fungus Foray in Epping Forest annually in mid-October and for a time, the
Cryptogamic Foray in November, until inclement weather so often made this
Cryptogamic Foray unpopular at that time of the year. In March 1935, Mr John
Salmon (member 1928-46) was appointed "Excursions Secretary", thus
relieving the writer from this duty, since he had been appointed Hon. Treasurer
after the death of Mr John Avery in February of that year; John Avery had
served the Club as Hon. Treasurer for 17 years. In 1950, a rather primly-worded
resolution was passed whereby the term "Excursion" was to be replaced by
"Field-meeting", in the title of the relevant Secretary.
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