THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 359 



2^iichiii scahra Rost. 

 ,, varia Pers. 

 „ fallax Pers. 

 ,, botrytis Pers. 



Arcyria punicea Pers. 

 ,j incarnata Pers. 

 ,, JlavaYcva. 



Perichcena depressa Lib. 



Lxcogala ininiatuDi Pers. 



The usual exhibition of Fungi was arranged in one of the rooms in the hotel, 

 Over lOO species were hxbelletl by tlie experts present. 



After tea an Ordinary Meeting of the Club was held (being the 232nd), the 

 chair being taken by Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., Vice-President. 



The Chan-man said that all would regret that Ulness prevented the President,, 

 Mr. Iludler, from being with the Club that evening. 



jMr. E. H. Rhys Harries was elected a member. 



Mr. T. Petch, B.Sc, exhibited living specimens of the slug Liinax tenelliia 

 from Epping Forest (see page 342) and also living Limax cinereo-niger from 

 High Beach, announced in July part of the E.N. (ante 299). 



Dr. Cooke and ]Mr. Massee reported on the plants gathered during the foray, 

 and shown in the room. And later Mr. Massee exhibited a series of Wall 

 Diagrams, printed- in colours, of some of the principal diseases of trees, and gave 

 a running commentary upon the different species, explaining the diagrams. He 

 then announced that the nine diagrams, of which these were advanced proofs, 

 were part of a series which the Board of Agriculture had resolved to issue at a 

 cheap rate for the benelit of those interested in arboriculture. On the tables 

 were also exhibited a series of twenty coloured drawings by Dr. M. C. Cooke^ 

 illustrative of common plant diseases in the various stages through which they 

 pass in the history of their lives. 



It was announced that a complete and revised list of the Hymenomycetes of 

 Essex, by Dr. Cooke and ^Ir. Massee, was in preparation, and would be 

 pubhshed in the Es.skx Naturalist ; also that extra copies would be printed 

 and sold at a moderate price to be used as check lists. 



[The Editor has compiled the foregoing account from Dr. Cooke's report in 

 the Garde7ters' Chronicle for October 29th. A brightly written account of the 

 Foray, extending to a column, appeared in the Daily Ne7t's for October 20th.] 



THE 233rd ORDINARY MEETING. 



Saturday, October 2()th, 1904. 



The first meeting of the winter session was held as usual in the Technical 

 Institute, Stratford, at 6.30 p.m., ^Ir. Walter Crouch, P\Z. S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



New Members. — Mr. T. Petch, B.A., B.Sc, and Mr. F. A. Reichert w^ere 

 elected members. 



Donations to the Museum. — The Secretary announced that Air. Thomas 

 W. Reader had presented a set of shells of mollusca, sectioned so as to show the 

 structure. These were intended for a series now being prepared, demonstrating 

 some leading facts in the morphology of the mollusca. 



