Joiinial of Vroceedmtjs. xi 



for their exertions, on which the success of the meeting had so much 

 depended. After a short Conversazione, the members made their way 

 home, in companies, some by rail, some by road ; whilst a select band 

 chose rather a walk across the valley, and through the Forest to Buckhurst 

 Hill, Woodford, and Chigwell. 



Satukday, April 30th, 1881. — Ordinary Meeting. 



The fifteenth Ordinary Meeting was held at the head-quarters at 

 7 o'clock, the President in the chair. 



Donations of books, pamiDhlets, and periodicals, &c. (exclusive of 

 "Exchanges") were announced from Mr. B. G. Cole (2 vols.), Mr. W. 

 Cole (16 vols, and numerous pamj)hlets, &c.), Mr. P. Copland (9 vols., 

 with the 'Zoologist' and 'Journal of Botany,' monthly), Edinburgh 

 Geological Society (3 vols.), Mr. G. S. Gibson, Mr. J. E. Harting (3 vols.), 

 Mr. A. Lockyer (3 vols.), Mr. G. H. Lockyer, Mr. F. T. Lockyer, and Mr. 

 W. White (pamphlet and map). A unanimous vote of thanks to the 

 donors was passed. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the club : — Charles 

 A. B. Brooker, Henry BHss, Frederick W. Cory, M.K.C.S., F.M.S., &c., 

 John Chambers, M.K.C.S., &c., Eev. Albert Hughes, M.A., Thomas King, 

 J. W. Lawson, G. C. Locket, Eev. A. Gray Maitland, F.R.G.S., Benjamin 

 Newling, M. Whiteley Wilhams, F.C.S., F.I.C. 



On the motion of the Secretary, it was agreed that Mr. James Fletcher, 

 President of the Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club, who was about to visit 

 England, should be admitted to the full privileges of membership during 

 his stay in this country. 



The Secretary said that Mr. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., had asked him 

 whether any member could record Cydostoma elegans as now Uvhuj in 

 Essex. Mr. Dalton wrote: — "I have found it, and so has Mr. Christy, 

 abundantly in very modern alluvium and spring-peat, but never living, 



and I fear it is extinct. Query, from what cause I have found 



Cydostoma in peaty alluvium at Eivenhall (Witham, Essex), and Worm- 

 ingford (Nayland, Suffolk) ; and Mr. Eowe, of Felsted, sent me a very 

 recent looking specimen from surface-soil there, but I never could hear of 

 it living in Essex. The chalky boulder-clay is quite calcareous enough 

 for it, but there may have been some slight alteration of environment to 

 extinguish it lately. Adiatina acicula, supposed to be rare, is very 

 common in South Essex. A good habitat for the dead shells {Hibernice 

 didu !) being ant-hills in grass-land [Formica Jiava or rufa). The same 

 heap should be looked over frequently, as the shells are worked out by rain 

 to the surface." 



Mr. Walter Crouch (who brought up some fine specimens of Cydoiftomu 

 for exhibition), said he had never found the shell in Essex either living 

 or dead, nor had he heard of specimens being found in the county. It 



