38 NOTES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



A report by Dr. M. C. Cooke on the scientific results of the Fungus Forav 

 on October 17th and i8th last, was read, and thanks were voted to the author. 

 This jiaper is printed in the present pmi {ante p. 5). 



Delegate's Report. — Mr. \V. Whitaker, F.R.S., F.G.S., gave viva vac, 

 his report as Delegate of the Club at the Conference of Local .Scientific Societies- 

 at the British Association meeting at Belfast. The substance of Mr. Whitaker's 

 remarks will be printed in the E. X. 



The President ]:)roposed that the thanks of the Club should be given to ]\Ir. 

 Whitaker for his services as Delegate at Belfast, and for the report he had just 

 made. 



Some observations on the value of Geological Photographs were made by Mr.. 

 Primrose McConnell, and Mr, Briscoe announced that he wished at the January 

 meeting to biing forward a proposal for a Photograj^hic Survey of Essex, to be 

 Avorked in connection with the Essex Museum. 



The vote of thanks was carried by acclamation, and ]Mr. Whitaker briefly 

 replied. 



Lecture on "Insect Life." — Mr. Fred, Enock, F.L.S., F. E.S., then 

 delivered a lecture on the life-histories of some typical insects, which \\as illustra- 

 ted by a very fine series of lantern slides, many of them being coloured. Mr. 

 Enock delightfully related the results of many original observations, and the 

 jiatience and skill shown in securing photographs of the actual acts of transforma- 

 tion and habits of some species were greatly admired bv all present. 



The President jiroposed a vote of thanks to the lecturer, and said that in 

 listening to Mr. Enock he always felt that an obser\er of nature was speaking and 

 not a mere cut-and-dried relator of other men's work. The vote of thanlcs was 

 most heartily accorded. 



NOTES— ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



ZOOLOGY. 



MAMMALIA. 



Black Hare in Essex.— Mr. E. H.Watts records in the F^^/^ 

 of January 24th, 1903, the kilHng of a black hare near Bishops 

 Stortford. In reply to our enquiries, Mr. Watts^says that it was 

 a buck and perfectly black, and he thinks from one to two years 

 old. Several melanic forms of the hare are mentioned in Dr. 

 Layer's book from Epping and Ongar, and the Editor of the 

 Field writes that seven are recorded in the Encyclopadia of Sport. 

 They are doubtless rare, or we should hear of them more 

 frequently. — Ed. 



The Deer in Epping Forest.— The last census recorded in 

 the E.N. was that taken in 1898 (\'ol. xi., p. 52). By inadver- 

 tence the counting made on the 8th January, 1901, was omitted 



