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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



posted to prominent inhabitants of Essex, asking them to join the Club as an 

 encouragement of the work proposed to be carried on. The President had some 

 hope that this action would result in an important addition to the list of 

 members. 



Pelvis of Mammoth.- Mr. W. Gm\e exhibited a portion of the pelvis of a 

 species of EUphas, probably E. primigenias, which had been dug up in the 

 "Kennedy Estate" on the outskirts of Barking (details of this specimen will 

 be given in a " Museum Note " in the Essex Naturalist). 



Considerable discussion took place on this exhibit. Mr. Walter Crouch, 

 F.L.S., who had visited the spot where the bone was found, gave some 

 topographical details. Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., said that it was impossible 

 practically to decide whether the pelvis had belonged to the true mammoth or to 

 the Southern straight-tusked elephant [Elephas antiquus). The probabilities- 

 were in favour of the bone being from a mammoth. Mr. Newton congratulated 

 Mr. Whitehead, the assistant in the Museum, on the way in which the bone had 

 been put together and imbedded in a slab for preservation. 



Serotine Bat in Essex. — The Rev. A. B. Hutton exhibited a specimen 

 of Vesper ugo serotinus, from Pitsea, Essex. He had previously secured another. 

 Mr. Miller Christy had previously recorded two specimens from Essex* (one of 

 which was in the' Club's collection), so that in all four Essex Serotines were 

 known. 



Rose-coloured Pastor in Essex. — Mr. Hutton also exhibited a specimen 

 of the very rare bird, Pastor roseus, taken at Pitsea this autumn. Very few 

 specimens were known from the county, not more than three or four at the most 

 (see Christy's Birds of Essex, page 130). 



[The bird was first noticed as a British " visitor " by George Edwards (the 

 Stratford Naturalist whose portrait is in E.N., vol. xiii., plate 13) who, in 1742 

 figured a specimen killed at Norwood, and which was then preserved in a coffee- 

 house at Chelsea.— Ed. ] 



Mr. Hutton also exhibited a female Hobby, but this was from the Kentish 

 shore of the Thames. 



Mr. Christy made some remarks upon these very interesting specimens. 



Worked Flints from Thundersley.— Mr. F. T. Mapey exhibited some 

 worked flint "flakes" fouud in his garden near Thundersley Lodge, Essex. 

 Mr. Francis W. Reader remarked that these specimens indicated the existence of 

 flint-working in Neolithic times on the spot, and he recommended Mr. Mapey to 

 keep a look-out for other specimens. 



Reputed Meteorite.— Mr. Miller Christy exhibited the reputed meteorite 

 reported in the newspapers as having fallen at Biaintree on October 9th. On 

 examination by Dr. Fletcher, of the British Museum, the supposed meteorite was 

 found to be a mass of smelted iron, so that the mystery of the reported " fall " 

 remained unexplained. 



In connection with this subject Mr. F. W. Rudler, F.G.S., gave some very 

 interesting details of the fall of the largest meteorite in this country, which 

 happened near Wold Cottage, Thwing, a few miles from Scarborough, 



1 Proc. : Essex Field Club, vol. iv., p. iv., and Laver, The Mammals, &c, of Essex, 

 page 33. 



