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arrangements could be made, the meeting would take place. A Field 

 Meeting would be held on June 5th, in Monk's Wood, with Dr. M. C. 

 Cooke, M.A., &c., as conductor; also one on 19th June in conjunction 

 with the New Cross Microscopical Society. In July Mr. Walker would 

 accompany a Field Meeting to some spot of geological interest ; and 

 Professor Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S.; &c., had also offered his valuable 

 services as a botanist. Particulars of these meetings would be 

 announced in the usual way. 



The vote of thanks having been carried by acclamation, Mr. Walker 

 said that his best reward was the knowledge that so strong and pros- 

 perous a Field Club had been established in Essex. He had had much 

 experience in connection with Field Clubs and Natural History Socie- 

 ties, and therefore spoke with authority in expressing the pleasure he 

 had derived at finding a club so vigorous and determined to succeed, 

 starting on its course of pleasant usefulness. 



The usual Conversazione took place at the Head-quarters of the Club, 

 3, St. John's Terracce, where tea and coffee were served. Mr. Wake- 

 field exhibited some beautiful specimens of Agates, Fossil Sponges, 

 Corals, &c., cut and polished; also a fine stone Celt, dredged up from 

 the River Lea, near Waltham Abbey. Mr. W. White, two species of 

 Stigmavia from the Coal Measures. Rev. W. Linton Wilson, various 

 specimens of animal and vegetable " Pond Life," including Lissotyiton 

 pundatus and Triton cristatus (Newts), three species of Lemna from 

 Chigwell, and many Water -beetles, &c. Messrs. W. and B. G. Cole, 

 a box of insects from Monk's Wood, taken and bred in April and May, 

 1880. Mr. J. Gibbs, specimens of the abnormal Cavdamine pratensis 

 described in a paper recently communicated to the Club (Trans. Vol. I., 

 p. 64). Mr. English, fine specimens of Poly poms squamosus ; a hen 

 Blackbird with plumage resembling a Thrush, and other specimens. 



Saturday, June 5TH, 1880. — Field Meeting. 



The announcement of a Field Meeting in Monk's Woods, with 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke, M.A., A.L.S., &c., as botanical conductor, attracted 

 a large number of members and friends, nearly eighty ladies and 

 gentlemen assembling at Loughton Station on arrival of the 2.13 p.m. 

 train from Fenchurch Street. The weather, changeable during the 

 morning, had then become more settled, and gave some promise 

 of a fine afternoon. The party was soon in motion, the route chosen 

 being over Staple's Hill, and so at once into the greenwood. There 

 were present Mr. B. H. Cowper, the discoverer, and Mr W. D'Oyley, 

 the surveyor, of the Loughton " Camp " — a spot which may have 

 been associated with Queen Boadicea, and the final struggle of the 



