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Cyclostomata, we have ii6 as the revised total, up to the 

 present date, of true fishes occurring in the Essex streams and 

 ponds, and the restricted marine area recognised by Dr. Laver. 

 Doubtless many more will be added from the Thames Estuary 

 and elsewhere when the much desired systematic explorations 

 aie undertaken, especially if a somewhat more elastic definition 

 of the " Essex Marine Shallow-Water District " is adopted, 

 following the custom of other county recorders. (See E. N. ii. 

 40 and xiii., 37 ; also Laver's Fishes, p. 13). 



THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB : REPORTS OF 



MEETINGS. 



THE 2i8th ORDINARY MEETING. 



Saturday, December 6th, 1902. 



The meeting was held in the Technical Institute, Stratford, at 6.30 as usual, 

 Prof. R. Meldola, President, in the chair. 



New Member. — Mr. George Miles was elected. 



Cuttle-Fish Exhibited. — Mr. W. Cole showed a fine specimen of Sepia 

 officinalis kom the North Sea, presented by Mr. Goodchild. This specimen was 

 very much larger than the one exhibited at the last meeting. The animal was 

 seldom obtained immediately off the Essex Coast, and then generally in the young 

 state. 



Neolithic Implements from Chelmsford. — Mr. Henry Mothersole sent 



for exhibition two flint implements found by himself near Chelmsford. One was a 



hammer-stone, showing evident marks of use, with a curved ridge, very like the 



•one figured in Evans' Sto7ie Implements, p. 246. These specimens will be figured 



and described in a future part of the E.N. 



Paper Read.— Mr. A. S. Kennard read extracts from a paper by himself and 

 Mr. B. B.Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S., on "The Non- Marine Mollusca of the 

 River Lea Alluvium at Walthamstow." The paper included the molluscan results 

 of the recent excavations in making the East London Company's new reservoirs. 

 One of the most noteworthy results of the investigation was the chscovery of 

 Planorbis stroemii, a shell not hitherto reported from these islands either living 

 or extinct. The paper was published in the last part of E.N., a7ite, pp. 13-21. 



At the same time, Mr. Kennard very kindly presented a full set of the shells 

 to the Club's Museum. 



A vote of thanks was cordially passed to the authors on the motion of the 

 President, who congratulated them upon a remarkably good piece of work. The 

 numerous papers which would probably be the result of the study of the 

 excavations in the Lea Valley would be most interesting and valuable as 

 contributions to local geology, archaeology, and palaeontology. 



Demonstration of Tri-colour Photography. — Mr. Edward R. Turner 

 then gave a practical Demonstration of the Lumiere Company's process ot 



