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the farm on the opposite side. I have only once before been able to find the 

 clay within our forest boundary — viz., at Great Parndon. Mr. T. V. Holmes 

 found it near Ilford, and a line drawn from near Ilford to Great Parndon 

 passes close to the spot mentioned above. 1 have placed a sample of the 

 deposit in the Forest Museum. — T. Hay Wilson. [At one of the early Field 

 Meetings of the Club at Theydon Bois in September, 1880, a section of the 

 Chalky Boulder Clay was noticed in the lane leading from Theydon Bois 

 station to the Church, presumably at or near Mr. Wilson's position. See 

 Journal of Proceedings, E.F.C., vol. i, page xli. — Ed.] 



Tufa-forming Stream near Epping. — Mr. H. Bernard Kemsley, of 

 " Allendale," Epping, a student at Loughton School, has brought up for the 

 Museum a very nice specimen of Tufa or Travertine produced by a small 

 tributary of the Cobbin Brook, and has furnished the following particulars : — 

 " The stream is situated in a ploughed field on " Takeleys Farm,' Epping, 

 belonging to Mr. Kemsley. About three years ago, the field being very wet, 

 a drain was cut down the middle, and it was found that the soil was very 

 hard near the Cobbin Brook (into which the stream now runs) owing to the 

 presence of lime. At the spot were the drain pipes come out at the brook 

 there is a heap of this limey concretion deposited from the water and the 

 pipes have about a quarter of an inch of ' fur ' in them. The position is 

 about 500 yards from Epping Old Church, on the right hand side of the road 

 going to the Church and about 100 yards on the margin of the brook from 

 the bridge." The sample presented by Mr. Kemsley consists of twigs and 

 leaves cemented together by the lime salt (apparently principally carbonate). 

 No shells can be seen in the travertine, but it will be remembered that it was 

 on a deposit of carbonate of lime laid by a spring at Stebbing Ford, that Mr. 

 French found Cydostuma elegans in a living state in Essex (Essex Naturalist, 

 vol. iv., pp. 92-93). Mr. Kemsley should search the locality for molluscs. — Ed. 



MISCELLANEA. 



Fairmead Lodge, Epping Forest. -As was stated in a foot-note on 

 page 296 of the last volume (vol. x.), Fairmead Lodge had disappeared from 

 the Forest. The reasons for its removal are thus stated in the last Report of 

 the Epping Forest Committee (gth February, 1899) : — " Referring to our last 

 j^ nnual Report, in which we stated that we had instructed Mr. Surveyor to 

 consider whether it was possible to adapt Fairmead Lodge, or any portion 

 thereof, as a keeper's residence, we have to report that Mr. Surveyor was of 

 opinion that it would cost /^20o to make the Lodge or the adjoining tea-shed 

 habitable. We therefore resolved to remove the buildings, and advertised for 

 tenders from persons willing to purchase and take away the materials. The 

 highest tender received was that of Mr. James Bailey for the sum of £^0, 

 which we accepted, and the whole of the buildings have been pulled down and 

 removed, and the site restored to the Forest." 



