250 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



"The 'Clay Pit' marked on the Ordnance map, between Feering and 

 Inworth, is a biickyarci, worked in Boulder Clay (the upper part whitish, the 

 lower dark blue) to a depth of at least 30 feet. It is then not bottomed, and 

 therefore the base must be some depth below the river, and the clay is probably 

 continuous across the valley to Kelvedon, as at Witham, though overlaid by 

 Valley Gravel in both cases. Between Feering and Witham, indeed, the 

 Boulder Clay sinks down, cutting out the underlying Glacial Gravel, and resting 

 on the London Clay." 



Beyond this cutting, small diains beside the line showed Boulder Clay at the 

 surface as far southward as a point due west of Inworth Church. Then south- 

 west of the Rectorv, at the south-eastern corner of a field the eastern hedge of 

 which ranges close to, but went of, the railway, a Sarsen Stone was seen. And 

 from this point, to that at which the Light Railway crosses the road from 

 Inworth Grange and Windmill Hill to Tiptree, London Clay, with irregular 

 cappings of gravel, appeared. The party did not proceed beyond the road just 

 mentioned. 



The London Clay near the north-western corner of Perry Wood showed 

 septaria nodules with very high and irregular dips in a horizontal space of about 

 25 yards, suggesting the presence of one or more faults. As Mr. W. Whitaker 

 remarked, the position of this spot is worth. noting, as it may possibly turn out to 

 be on the line of the Wickham Bishop or some other important fault. In Essex 

 the absence of hard beds, and the very large proportion of the country which is 

 covered by superficial deposits, make the detection of the direction taken by lines 

 of fault a work of exceptional difficulty. 



Of the gravel patches capping the London Clay hereabouts, the only one 

 deserving special mention was seen between Xew B;irn westward and Hill Farm 

 eastM-ard of the line It was much coarser than the other patches, and contained 

 many large flints. 



The party returned to Kelvedon by the road from Tiptree past Perrv's Wood 

 and Inworth Church ; and after tea at the " Sun Inn," on Feering Hill, caught 

 th^ 7'3S p.m. train for Liverpool Street. 



" More recent visits to this railway have shown me that by far the most 

 interesting portion of it, from a geological point of view, is that between Tiptree 

 and Kelvedon, noticed above. On descending from the Tiptree Heath plateaa 

 to Tolleshunt Knights and Tolleshunt D'Arcy, and thence eastward, nothing 

 appears in the slight cuttings but London Clay, capped here and there by irregular 

 deposits of gravel and sand. — T.V.H." 



THE ANNUAL " FUNGUS FORAY." 



Saturday, October 24TH, 1903. 



The Fungus Foray was held on this day at the headquarters of so many 

 foimer meetings of the kind — the "King's Oak" Inn, High Beach, Fpping 

 Forest. 



The Botanical Conductors were Dr. M. C. Cooke, Mr. George Massee, F.L.S., 

 and Mr Arthur Lister, F.R.S. 



The collecting parties were two — one starting about noon from the head- 

 quarters, and exploring Honey Lane Quarters and the western sides of the Forest, 

 and the second from Loughton, visiting the ground by the Loughton Camp and 

 Monks Woods. 



