Iviii Journal of Proceedim/s. 



Bernard T. HalforcL B.Sc, Charles J. Leaf, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.K.M.S., 

 F. H. Meggy, Mrs. Marshall, F. G. Newman, Frederick Oliphant, George 

 Eees, Simeon Warburg, and Compton Warner. 



Mr. Lockyer announced that Mr. Fletcher, President of the Ottawa 

 Naturalists' Field Club, would be happy to send specimens of Canadian 

 plants to any member wishing to study them. 



The Secretary called attention to the work which is being done by the 

 Essex Bee-keepers' Association, and distributed some copies of the 

 prospectus and rules of that Society. 



Mr. B. G. Cole exhibited a specimen of Abraxas Ulmata, taken by 

 himself in Bury Wood, Epping Forest, last July. He had not previously 

 heard of the occurrence of the moth in the Forest. Mr. Cansdale 

 informed him that the species had been taken at St. Osyth, Essex. He 

 also exhibited a remarkably small specimen of Liparis auriflua (the 

 Gold-tailed Moth), taken at large near Loughton, in July last. This 

 dwarf was less than half the normal size of the species. 



Mr. H. A. Cole exhibited and presented to the Museum two worked 

 flints which he had recently found. The most perfect one was from 

 Great Parndon, Essex. Near that village he had come upon a heap of 

 stones which had been picked off the neighbouring fields. This heap 

 contained a considerable number of ordinary glacial fossils, Gryphea, 

 Echinns, lumps of lime-stone, &c., with chalk-flints and fragments of 

 rock of various kinds. On carefully searching the heap he had found a 

 flint bearing evident marks of human workmanship. Judging from its 

 form it had probably been hafted to a handle and used as an adze in 

 agricultural operations. The specimen had been shown to Dr. Evans and 

 General Pitt-Eivers. The second flint Mr. Cole had picked up in the 

 Epping New Eoad, near High Beach, from a heap of gravel by the road- 

 side, wliich had probably been dug from the Forest pits close by. The 

 celt was a very rude one, and was quite white upon its surface, an appear- 

 ance probably due to aqueous action, the soluble particles ha^dng been 

 removed by the infiltration of w^ater through the body of the flint, while 

 the insoluble portions had been left in a finely divided state, and conse- 

 quently reflected white light. 



The President said that those disposed to hunt for these interesting 

 relics of a time long past might take a hint from these finds of Mi-. Cole. 

 The last remnants of the " Stone Age "' were to be found scattered over 

 the surface of the country in ploughed fields, &c., and as stones were 

 often gathered by farmers from the fields, it might be profitable to 

 submit the spoil-heaps to a rigorous examination when found in suitable 

 localities. 



J\Ir. W. Cole showed several species of Coleoptera, including the scarce 

 Kose-beetle, Gnorimus nobills, which he had found on bramble blossom in 

 Lodge Bushes, 'Epping Forest, in July last. He also exhibited some 

 specimens of Essex insects, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Coleoptera, &c., sent 

 by Mr. Billups to illustrate the modern methods of preparing insects for 



