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be mentioned, and partly on account of the fact that as I hav'e 

 found the agamic generation in Epping Forest it is highly 

 probable that the sexual generation is to be found there also, 

 and a description will, therefore, be of use in distinguishing 

 these galls. 



In the following account I have kept the generic name of 

 the agamic generation for the sexual generation also. In this 

 respect I have followed Cameron, but in the case of the specific 

 names I have, with a few exceptions, retained those used by Dr. 

 Adler. 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES— ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 



Destructive Storm in Essex. — In connection with the detailed 

 and exhaustive report given by Mr. WilHam Cole i'l the Essex Naturalist 

 (vol. X., 112-129) of the great storm of June 24th, 1897, which wrought such 

 havoc in certain but happily restricted districts in Essex, it will be of interest 

 to recall the account given by Mr, Jacob George Strutt, the artist in the 

 Magazine of Natural History for 1833 (pp. 103-107) of a similar storm which 

 occurred in Thorndon Park, near Brentwood, on the 12th of October, 1831. 

 The main part of the narr.-^'.tive there reprinted was taken from a Chelmsford 

 paper, and it was accompanied by a woodcut of a scene from the midst of the 

 havoc drawn upon wood by Mr. Strutt, which is here reproduced. I quote 

 some paragraphs from the narrative ; — " On the evening of Wednesday, the 

 i2th inst. (October, 1831), a destructive hurricane ravaged a considerable 

 portion of the park of Thorndon Hall, the seat of Lord Petre, near Brent- 

 wood. The blast came on about eight o'clock, and in less than four minutes 

 the work of havoc was complete. It appears that the wind came from the 

 south-west, and entered the park near the Lion's Lodge, where it tlirew down 

 a small portion of the paling. It then traversed the park in a varying sweep 

 of about 150 yards' breadth. It is difficult to form any idea of the manner in 

 which it took its course, as it has made many singular selections of spots and 

 single trees. The line of desolation is not an uninterrupted one ; in many 

 places, a large breadth of trees has escaped unhurt, while others, apparently 

 heltered by them, have been shivered or torn up by the roots. In some 

 groups of three or four trees, one of the least exposed has shared in the ruin 

 while its more exposed neighbours have not lost a leaf. On entering the park 

 at the Lion's Lodge, on the west or Warley side, the eye is immediately 

 attracted to the right hand by several oaks, 60 feet Jong, which have been 

 torn up by the roots and to which are adhering masses of earth, 14 feet in 



length, and from three to four feet in thickness The stems of 



many trees are off within a few feet of the earth, some at the height of two or 

 three feet, others at a greater height ; and one elm has been severed at about 

 20 feet from the ground, 15 feet of the stump having half its body torn away 



