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Mr. Durrant, one of the Librarians, reported that Dr. Cooke had presented to 

 the Library about thirty books, consisting mainly of local floras. 



Dr. Henry Laver, F.L.S^, then read a paper on " Potash-making in Essex ; a 

 Lost Rural Industry." This paper will be printed in full in the next volume of 

 The Essex Naturalist. An interesting discussion ensued, carried on by 

 Prof. Meldola, Mr. J. Spiller, Mr. Dymond, Mr. Shenstone, Mr. Chalkley Gould, 

 Dr. Thresh, Mr. Webb, Prof. Almond, Mr. T. V. Holmes, and the author. 



The Rev. W. C. Howell read " Short Notes on the Foxglove, chiefly 

 Etymological and Local." 



Mr. Miller Christy gave a description of a specimen of the Serotine Bat 

 (^Scotcphihis serotinus")^ which he exhibited and presented to the Club, recently 

 caught in his house at Broomfield, being the second known Essex specimen (jintr, 

 page 102). 



Cordial votes of thanks were passed to the authors of the papers, and to 

 Dr. Cooke, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Christy for their valuable donations. 



The Museum was open during the afternoon, so that the members might see 

 the progress already made in the arrangement of the rooms. 



NAVESTOCK IN OLDEN DAYS; STRAY NOTES, 

 PREHISTORIC, SAXON, AND NORMAN. 



By rev. S COODE HORE, Curate of Navestock. 

 [Read July 2Zth, 1894] 



A S a matter of course, the very mention of prehistoric times 

 -^^ precludes any reference to the derivation of the name by 

 which our parish is now known. That the place, however, now 

 called Navestock, was inhabited at a very remote period is evident 

 from the earthworks which remain as silent witnesses to the existence 

 of such inhabitants. 



I venture, to-day, to call your attention to two of such earth- 

 works : 



F. The first was referred to repeatedly during the last century 

 by the well-known antiquarian Dr. Stukeley, as " The Alate 

 Temple, on Navestock Common." 



2. The second is described on the map of the Ordnance Survey 

 as a camp. 



/. THE ALATE TEMPLE. 



Dr. Stukeley made several visits to Navestock. He discovered 

 here an earthwork which his biographer says was supposed by him 

 to have been an Alate Temple of the Druids (Mem. of Dr. Stukeley, 

 Surtees Society, vol. III., p. 157), but I will give you the doctor's own 



