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found feeding on Laurustinus and some found on Lilac. The cater- 

 pillars on the Laurustinus were of a much darker green colour than the 

 Lilac feeders, which latter were of a pale bluish-green, although the 

 leaves of the two plants on which they fed did not much differ in depth 

 of tint. 



Mr. N. F. Robarts, F.G.S., exhibited some fossil corals and shells 

 which he had lately obtained from the Carboniferous or Mountain 

 Limestone at Llangollen, North Wales. He gave a brief exposition of 

 the fossils and the characteristics of the formation in which they occur. 



The President announced that two Forest Field Meetings were in 

 course of arrangement : one in September, under the direction of Pro- 

 fessor Boulger, F.L.S., for the observation, more particularly, of the 

 autumnal flowering plants of the Forest, when the Professor would 

 deliver an address on "Botanical work to be done;" and the other 

 on October 2nd, when two celebrated Fungologists, Dr. M. C, Cooke 

 and Mr. Worthington Smith, F.L.S., would expound the rich crypto- 

 gamic flora of the Epping woods. 



At the Conversazione, Mr. English exhibited an extensive and beau- 

 tiful series of the larger Fungi, gathered the previous afternoon in the 

 woods above Epping. The collection included many rare species, as 

 Boletus setanus, Thclephora clavicnlaris (a new species within the last four 

 or five years), and Gyromitra esculenta, the plant exhibited being only tlie 

 second Epping Forest specimen known, &c., &c. He also brought up a 

 specimen of the pretty and rare Snapdragon {Linaria spuria) from 

 Epping. Mr. H. J. Barnes exhibited a fine fossil Echinus in flint, from 

 the " Cuckoo Oak " Gravel Pits, Fairmead Bottom. Messrs. W. and 

 B. G. Cole showed a number of living specimens of characteristic 

 littoral plants, gathered the previous day on the " Saltings" at Bright- 

 lingsea, St. Osyth, &c., Essex, and also a long series of the British 

 Geometra, from their cabinet. 



Saturday, September iith, 1880. — Field Meeting. 



Our trysting place this afternoon is at Theydon Bois, and our pur- 

 pose is to note and examine the floral riches which early Autumn 

 scatters with lavish hand in hedgerow, field, lane, and coppice. During 

 the month of August no meeting had been held ; so many members, it 

 was thought, would be gratifying that yearly longing for sand and 

 shingle, and a gulp of the fresh breezes vexing old Neptune's restless 

 domain, which has struck so deeply into our modern insular life. So 

 this is our first reunion since we met at the Mammoth's grave at Ilford. 

 Our organizers had looked forward to a large and pleasant meeting, and 

 had secured the kind aid of our colleague. Professor Boulger, F.L.S., 



