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be glad if specimens are sent to me in a tin box with damp moss, 

 and data respecting the habitat, soil, nearness to sea or brackish 

 water, and the like, addressed, "The drove," Idle, Bradford, York- 

 shire. 



( To be continued. ) 



THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



Second Joint Meeting of the Club and the Ipswich Scientific 

 Society, at Ipswich, and on the Orwell and Stour Rivers. 



Friday and Saturday, July 24th and 25th, 1891. 



Birec/ors:— Henry Miller, M.Inst.C.E. ; Dr. J. E. Taylor, F.L.S., F.G.S. ; 



E. A. Fitch, F.L.S. ; E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. ; Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. ; 



G. H. Hewetson, and W. Cole, F.E.S. 

 n"'HE meeting in June last year, for the purpose of dredging in the Estuaries 

 -*■ of the Orwell and Stour rivers, having been so successrul and pleasant, 

 the Council, with the kind and hospitable co-operation of the Ipswich Scientific 

 Societ}-, arranged to repeat the experiment, with some additional features. A full 

 account of the previous meeting, with lists of the objects of marine zoology and 

 botany found, was printed in the Essex Naturalist, vol. iv., pp. 169-173. 



Ipswich (" Gipes-wic," A.S. Chronicle, A.D. 993) is a fine example of an 

 English town, containing abundant evidences of antiquity and continuity of 

 history, and many interesting buildings and churches. The building known as 

 " Sparrowes House " is perhaps the most remarkable specimen of ancient domestic 

 architecture to be found in the eastern counties (see " In and About Ancient 

 Ipswich," by Dr. J. E. Taylor). The centre of attraction for the naturalist is, of 

 cou'se, the Museum, in which are local collections of very considerable scientific 

 importance. It was largely promoted by the Rev. W. Kirby, the celebrated 

 entomologist, and by the late Prof. Henslow. It is famous for its collection of 

 fossils from the Red and Coralline Crags of the eastern coasts, which was 

 augmented in 1877 by the late Sir Richard Wallace's gift of the Rev. H. 

 Canham's fine collection, the result of twenty years' labour. There are also 

 excellent botanical and bird collections, shells and crustacea, and a good series of 

 flint implements, principally found in Suffolk by Mr. S. Fenton. Dr. J. E. 

 Taylor is the Curator, and under his able management the Museum has 

 become the centre of scientific activity in Suffolk. 



Members of the Club assembled in Ipswich on the Friday afternoon, coming 

 by road and rail. The management of the meeting was again in the hands of 

 the Secretaries of the two Societies, Messrs. G. H. Hewetson and W. Cole, the 

 former most kindly undertaking all the local arrangements. The " East Anglian 

 Daily Times " gave excellent accounts of the two days' meeting, and we cannot do 

 better than repeat the opening words of the reporter : — " Between men engaged 

 in scientific pursuits, whether professionally or as a form of recreation — and the 

 women too, happily enough — there is a kind of freemasonry which places them 

 all upon a common footing of sympathy and good comradeship. No society is 

 more democratic, in the best sense of the word ; and in none other are more 

 friendly relationships established without any deference to political or religious 



