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districts, and he had only found two specimens. For the genus Clansilia 

 he had been searching, and felt sure it existed in the district, as he once 

 found after a flood one broken shell of C. rucjosa (?) washed down into 

 the river at Barking Side, but he had not met with a perfect shell. He 

 might also add that, without opening up the old and vexed question 

 whether Helix nemoraUs and H. hortensis were distinct species, he had 

 found with Mr. Laver that where one was common the other was not. 

 He had examined that year some 500 or 600 specimens of the former at 

 Barking Side and found not a single white-lip, while at Leytonstone 

 and other places he could always find liortensis and never a brown-lip. 

 A paper by Professor Boulger " On the Eiver-basins of Essex as 

 Natural-history pro\inces," being an appendix to his paper read at the 

 Chelmsford Meeting, was read [Transactions, ii. 79.] The paper was 

 accompanied by a sketch map of the county, showing proposed natural- 

 history provinces, and the author requested the kind assistance of resi- 

 dents and others in determining the nomenclature of various small 

 streams which were unnamed in any maps to which he had access. 



Various observations respecting the maps of the county and other 

 sources of information were made by Messrs. Fisher Unwin and Crouch, 

 and cordial votes of thanks were passed to Mr. Laver and Prof. Boulger 

 for their papers. 



The President referred to the Conference of Local Scientific Societies 

 held at the York Meeting of the British Association, which he had 

 attended as delegate on behalf of the Club. Suggestions had been made 

 as to work which could be carried on by local societies, but speaking on 

 behalf of their own Club he thought that the Une of action they had 

 adopted would give the society plenty of good opportunities for work 

 during the next few years. 



At the Conversazione, Mr. Oxley, F.E.M.S., exhibited a fine series of 

 doubly-stained sections of various vegetable stems under the microscope ; 

 Mr. English a long series of fresh specimens of Fungi, named and 

 arranged with great care, including a specuuen of the rare Heivella 

 lacunosa from Epping Forest; Mr. W. Crouch a long series of " varieties " 

 of aberrations of Helix a>ipersa and nemoralis ; and Mr. Oldliam some 

 specimens of sand strata from Ipswich. 



Saturday, October 1st, 1881. — Annual Cryptogamic Meeting, and 



Ordinary Meeting. 



[il/r. Worthington Smith lias kindly allowed us to use the humorotis 

 report of our Meeting, loritten hij Jam for the ' Gardeners' Chronicle ' of 

 October 8th, 1881. A few necessary additions and alterations have been 

 inserted, but in the main the report is in Mr. Smith's own words. The list 

 of Mosses, Hepaticce, and Lichens, is given on the authority of Mr. E. M, 

 Holmes, F.L.S.—Ed.] 



