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petals of which will aiford a problem in another season for the local 

 Darwinians. Round about was abundance of the historic needle-whin 

 {Ge)iista AnpUca), and this spot afforded an agreeable finish to the day's 

 botanizing. Among the other plants noticed during the day were, 

 AdtiUea ptarmica, Hypericum perforatum, humifusum, and pulchrum, 

 Epilohium Idrsutum and obscurum, Geranium dissectum, the two pretty 

 legume bearers, Lotus major and corniculatus ; and our note-books 

 contained entries of more than one hundi'ed plants. After witnessing 

 the "polo" play on Epping Plain, and examining Mr. English's old- 

 fashioned garden of hardy plants, his preserved Funcji and other 

 specimens, we betook ourselves to the station, which we left in a heavy 

 fall of rain and — a somewhat crowded condition. 



Satukday, August 13th, 1881. — Field Meeting and Ordinary Meeting. 



A Visit to Chelmsford and Danbury.* 



It afforded the Council great pleasure to hold a Field Meeting in 

 conjunction with the subscribers to the "Essex and Chelmsford Museum," 

 as tending to promote those feelings of good-fellowship and mutual 

 encouragement which should prevail between societies having objects so 

 much in common — the diffusion of a taste for the study of Science and 

 increasing the opportunities for intellectual recreation in the county. 

 Mr. Edmund Durrant, Hon. Secretary to the "Museum," took great 

 interest in the affair, and to his kind exertions much of the success of the 

 meeting was due. 



The weather was not so genial as could be wished. On the Friday 

 preceding the meeting the rain came down hea\'ily all day, and made the 

 prospect of Saturday anything but cheering. Saturday itself opened dull 

 and tlireatening, and later on it fulfilled its threat by an occasional 

 shower, which, however, did very little to disturb the day's enjoyment. 

 Still it was a chilly day, and the lowering skies did not show the country 

 at its best. The untoward weather had the effect of keeping at home a 

 great many members of the Essex Field Club who would otherwise have 

 gone to Chelmsford, but, nevertheless, a fair number assembled at 

 Liverpool Street Station in the morning, and went down to the county- 

 town by the 10 a.m. express train. The Club was for the first time 

 enabled to take advantage of the concession of the Directors of the Great 

 Eastern Eailway Company, by which members are allowed to purchase a 

 return-ticket at a single fare from the Liverpool Street, Buckhurst Hill, 

 Woodford, or Stratford Stations, to any given station on the railway in 



* The Proprietors of the 'Essex Times,' the ' Essex Weekly News,' the 'Chelmsford 

 Chronicle,' and the ' Essex Herald ' sent representatives to this Meeting, and the several 

 newspapers for the week ending August 20th contained lengthy and excellent reports of 

 the same. The two first-mentioned papers printed Mr. Chancellor's memoir in cxtenso. 

 —Ed. 



