THK ESSEX FIKI.n CI.l'i;. 2Q5 



of a Beaver obtained from the clay-pits at Stanway. [Mr. Manley has kindly 

 presented these to the Club's Museum, and with the assistance of Mr. W. M- 

 Webb, I have fitted all the parts together, and they ronsiilute a very interesting 

 specimen. — W. Cole.] 



Mr. W. Cole exhibited a series of specimens of Pleistocene Mollusca collected 

 by the late John Brown, of Stanway, and presented by him to the Chelmsford 

 Museum many )'ears ago, where they remained neglected until they were 

 recognised when the Museum came into the Curator's hands. The shells had 

 been carefully arranged by Mr. W. M. Webb, F.L.S., with the occasional assist- 

 ance of Mr. Horace Woodward, and would be described in The Es?ex 

 Naturalist by Mr. Webb (see E.N., ante, p. i6o). 



Mr. Cole also exhibited the galls and other specimens collected during the 

 afternoon. 



Mr. Shenstone then read portions of his paper on "The Oak Tree in Essex," 

 which is printed in the present volume (pp. 89-117). 



Hearty votes of thanks were passed to Mr. Shenstone for his paper, and to 

 him. Dr. Laver, and Mr. C. E. Benham, for arranging the details of the 

 meeting. 



Mr. C. E. Benham proposed a cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Round, for his 

 hospitable reception of the Club at his beautiful seat that afternoon. Mr. Round 

 had, with characteristic kindness, specially travelled down that afternoon from 

 London, where he was then staying, in order to welcome the members. The vole 

 was seconded by Prof. R. Meldola, and carried by acclamation. 



Mr. Round, speaking as a member of the Club, said that it had given him 

 great pleasure to receive the party. He regretted that he was not able to join in 

 the excursions from want of time, as a member of the House of Commons, but he 

 often read the report and papers in The Essex NATURALIST with great interest. 



The meeting was brought to a close, as the London members were obliged to 

 seek their train from Marks Tey, to which station the drive through Copford Green 

 was a pleasant one. A slight divergence was made en route to enable the visitors 

 to catch a glimpse of the entrance to the clay pits at Stanway, in which John 

 Brown collected so many of the specimens alluded to in the above report. 



Down the River Lea from Hertford to Tottenham. 

 Saturday, July I4ih, 1894. 



Conductors : — Major Lamorock Flower, F.San. I. (Sanitary Engineer to 

 the Lee Conservancy Board), Mr. G. J. Symonds, F.R.S. (Sec. R. Met. S.), and 

 W. Cole, F.E.S. (Hon. Secretary). 



Referees :—G,?o/fi>e.> — Mr. T. V. Holmes, F.G.S. : Vertebrata—^\\-. J. E. 

 Harting, F.L.S., Mr. ' Howard Saunders, F.L.S. ; Mollusca— "Sh. W. Oouch, 

 F.Z.S. ; Bota?iy—Ur. C. A. Wright, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



The object of the meeting was to view the scenery of the Lea \'alley from 

 Hertford downwards, and to enable the Conductors and Referees to give some 

 account of the geology, water-supply, and natural history of the district. 



The Lee Conservancy Board very kindly allowed the use of their steam 

 barge, the Lord Salisbury, for the occasion, and Major Lamorock Flower (to 

 whose exertions the improved state of the Lea in recent years is so largely owing), 



