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of enj^ravings, water-colour drawings, &c., were there shown by Mr. 

 Unwin, to illustrate his remarks at the church. They all related to the 

 scenes and mansions in the neighbourhood of Chigwell, and included two 

 or three of the magnificent Fairlop Oak to which the eccentric bookmaker, 

 John Day — the author of ' Sandford and Merton,' by the bye — paid so 

 many j^ilgrimages. One of them was very curious, being a lithograph on 

 India-paper and dated 1811 — some half-dozen years earlier than the date 

 at which Mr. Ackermann introduced the art from Germany into England, 

 where, however, it had partially become known before Ackermann made 

 its employment general. Mr. Unwin's portfolio also contained a number 

 of old maps of Essex, and old coaching road maps, in which the existence 

 of "a smith's shop" was always carefully denoted. One of the maps of 

 Essex was a German map of about the year 1(500. On the back of it was 

 part of the account of Essex, in German, and it was curious to note the 

 geographer's description of Leyton as at that time a small village, five miles 

 from London, and consisting of a few houses strewed here and there. 

 Mr. Oxley, Mr. Letchford, and Mr. Saville Kent showed several forms of 

 microscopic life under the microscope, being the results of the various 

 "dippings" taken during the afternoon; but the finds w^ere meagre, 

 compared with the hauls to be expected at the hands of these experienced 

 pond-hunters on favourable occasions. The specimens exhibited, however, 

 served to illustrate several points in Mr. Kent's paper. 



After tea an Ordinary Meeting (the seventeenth) was held, the President 

 in the chair. The following were elected members of the Club : — Miss 

 Jessie Combs, Prof. Gardner, M.A., F.S.A. (Disney Professor of Archa3- 

 ology, Cambridge), Rev. E. Stanway Jackson, W. T. Latter, Mus. B., 

 R.A.M., Mrs. Meldola, G. R. Noble, G. T. Read, W. J. Clumes Ross, B. Sc, 

 Henry Stear, M.R.C.S., Griffiths Smith, F.R.G.S., E. T. Stringer, George 

 Unwin, P. W. Wall, M. Inst. C.E., F.G.S., T. Westhorp, Mrs. Lewis 

 Winter, and Rev. A. B. Bingham Wright, M.A. 



Mr. SaviUe Kent then read his paper entitled, "Infusoria: What are 

 they? Their Collection and Investigation " [Transactions, ii., 44] . The 

 paper was amply illustrated by figures of the various forms noticed, and 

 a hearty vote of thanks was given to the author by acclamation. A short 

 discussion ensued on some points springing out of the paper, in which 

 the President, Mr. Henry Walker, and the author took part. 



The President announced, amid much applause, that the work of 

 excavation at Ambresbury Banks had been performed, and entered into 

 some details of the results obtained. He then said that he had a very 

 pleasing duty to j)erform, and that was to call upon the members of the 

 Club to return their very warmest thanks to their excellent Vice-President, 

 the Rev. W. Linton Wilson, and to Mrs. Wilson, for their very hospitable 

 and kind reception of the Society that afternoon. (Loud cheers.) 



The Rev. W. Linton Wilson said that he was sure the members of the 

 Club already knew that it was his and Mrs. Wilson's greatest pleasure 

 to receive them that day. He concluded by saying that, seeing Mr. 



