viii Journal of Proceedings. 



for members and friends at the ordinary meetings of the Club, from 

 £'j to ;^io would be required per annum. This could not be charged 

 to the working expenses of the Club, and the object of the fund was to 

 provide money for what was deemed a very useful and sociable purpose, 

 by means of voluntary contributions of members and friends. 



At the Conversazione, Mr. P. F. Copland exhibited a specimen of the 

 Green Woodpecker [Picus viridis) from Theydon Mount ; Mr. English 

 a specimen of Conglomerate found in the woods at Goynes Park, Theydon 

 Garnon ; and Mr. Cole a slide showing a portion of the Trachea of a 

 larva of Tipula oleracca, with a parasitic larva attached thereto ; Mr. Cole 

 also exhibited his collection of European butterflies. 



Monday, March 29TH, 1880. — Field Meeting.* 



The first ¥\e\d Meeting of the Club took place on this day. The 

 main body of the members and friends assembled at the Loughton Sta- 

 tion in time for the 11 o'clock train from that place to Ongar, and were 

 received by the Secretary. On arrival at Ongar the party at once pro- 

 ceeded to the " King's Head," where luncheon awaited them. Fifty- 

 three members and friends sat down, the chair being occupied by Mr. 

 Meldola. A pleasant walk across the fields then soon brought the party 

 to Greensted, where it was met by Capt. Budworth, of Greensted Hall, 

 and the Rev. R. M. Rodwell. The curious old church of St. Andrew's 

 was inspected, and Capt. Budworth gave a highly interesting 

 address on its history and construction. The body or nave of the 

 church was entirely built of the trunks of trees (probably 

 oaks), split or sawn asunder. The church has undergone a good 

 deal of restoration, and on two separate occasions, the ends 

 of the trunks of the trees composing its fabric becoming decayed, 

 have been sawn oft and underpinned with oak. This rude and 

 unpolished building is supposed to have been first erected as a sort of 

 shrine for the reception of the corpse of Edmund, King of the East 

 Angles, on its return to Bury (in Suffolk) from London, whither it had 

 been conveyed to avoid the sacrilege of the Danes, a.d. ioio. A passage 

 in a Latin MS., cited in the Monasticon, runs thus: "This body was 

 likewise entertained at Augre, where a wooden chapel erected to his 

 memory remains to this day." The ancient road from London to Bury 

 lay through Oldford, Abridge, Stapleford, Greensted, Dunmow, and 

 Clare. There can be little doubt that the ancient part of Greensted 

 Church was first a temporary shrine or resting place of St. Edmund, 



* In these reports of our field meetings the Editor has endeavoured to present chatty 

 and gossiping summaries of the proceedings and adventures at these pleasant 

 reunions, but it must be remembered that the accounts are for friendly and kindly 

 perusal by the members, and are not intended to be rigorously criticised. 



