?42 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



differences. The study of nature, like the poet's ' one touch ' of it, makes the 

 whole world kin. It was the underlying, if unexpressed, apprehension of this 

 fact, we think, which left so many pleasant memories of the joint meeting of the 

 Essex Field Club and the Ipswich Scientific Society, and led eventually to a 

 repetition of the programme during the present summer. Members of the now 

 famous Essex Society expressed an earnest wish for another visit to Ipswich, the 

 local Society were delighted with the opportunity of giving them an enthusiastic 

 w^elcome, and the introduction to a day's outing assumed the form of a social and 

 scientific ' reception ' at the Ipswich Museum on the previous evening. Arrange- 

 ments for this preliminary gathering were made in a spirit of heartiest hospitality 

 by the Committee of the Ipswich Scientific Society. The President for the year 

 (Mr. Henry Miller, jun.), Mr. G. H. Hewetson, Hon. Secretary, and Mr. F. 

 Woolnough, welcomed the compan3r.upon their arrival, and were the more active 

 orj:;anisers of the proceedings ; but they were assisted in various ways by others 

 of their colleagues, including Mr. J. Napier, Mr. E. P. Pidley, Mr. W. Vick, and 

 Mr. F. W. Wilson. 



"The visitors at once proceeded to the room occupied by Dr. J. E. Taylor, who 

 acted as guide, philosopher, and friend to all inquirers, and showed the way with 

 pardonable pride around the Museum which he has in great part created, and for 

 which the borough is rightly famed. In the Doctor's room, Mr. VV. Vick showed his 

 remarkable coUectionof photographs of one hundred people over seventy years of age, 

 which make a curious study in character and facial expression, together with many 

 good views of scenery and places of interest in the neighbourhood, which were seen to 

 advantage through two or three graphoscopes. Dr. Taylor exhibited a group of 

 carnivorous plants. Sundews (^D^-osera) and Butterwort (^Pinguicula), of which he 

 gave an intensely interesting account ; and his sanctum was, as usual, full of objects 

 which arrested the attention of the naturalists and geologists." 



Dr. Taylor afterwards led the way upstairs into the principal room of the 

 Museum, and proceeded to give, in his inimitable style, a most interesting dis- 

 course upon the Essex and Suffolk Red Crag formations, demonstrating each 

 statement by aid of the magnificent collections of Crag fossils which were con- 

 tained in the cases around. At the close of the address the Ma3-or of Ipswich 

 proposed a hearty vote of thanks to the demonstrator, which was carried by 

 acclamation. Dr. Ta3lor replied in a happy speech, complimenting the Essex 

 Field Club upon the high position it had attained among natural hi tory societies. 

 The remainder of the evening was occupied in examining the collections, and 

 in partaking of the refreshments which were hospitably provided in the Art Class- 

 room. The members of the Essex Field Club present on the Friday evening 

 were not so many as were desired ; but those who went down to Ipswich on the 

 Friday were delighted at the kind reception accorded to them by the Council and 

 members of the local Scientific Society. 



On the Saturday morning the Conductors and members of both Societies 

 assembled punctually at the landing-stage on the New Cut, and (after being 

 reinforced by the Field Club members who travelled down by the 8.5 a.m. from 

 London) embarked on the Great Eastern Railwr.y steamer, the " Stour," for a 

 day's dredging in the estuaries of the Orwell and Stour rivers. 



Whilst awaiting departure alongside the fteamer, Mr. Walter Crouch pointed 

 out the numerous borings of a most destructive mollusc, the Teredo, which was well 

 in evidence on the landing-stage ; and before the start other interesting forms were 

 to be seen on board, alive. These had been taken on the previous day from 



