256 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



The true Prawn {Palcdiuou scrrafiis) is also an Essex species and 

 well known. P. sqiiil/a is a small form from the western part of 

 the Channel, where it is " the Prawn." 



Palamon varians is another and decidedly Essex form, 

 occuring in vast numbers in the creeks and inlets of this part 

 of our coast. 



[Mr. Lovett concluded his lecture by giving some practical instructions 

 upon collecting and preserving crustaceans for the cabinet : and the methods 

 by which he preserved the ova and zosea stages permanently for future 

 microscopical examination. We hope to publish these notes, revised by 

 Mr Lovett, later. 



We had also intended to publish with this abstract a list of the species 

 of Stalk-eyed Crustaceans known to occur on our Essex coast, but the 

 catalogue is so manifestly imperfect that we await the results of another 

 season's collecting before printing it. — Ed.] 



THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



775/7 TO THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. 



Saturday, January 27TH, 1900. 



Conductor : — Professor Charles Stewart, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



(Hnntei'ian Professor and Conservator 0/ the Museum.) 



On the kind invitation of our esteemed Honorary Member, Prof. Stewart, 

 a visit was paid on this afternoon to the Museum under his care, 

 which is of European reputation as the repository of John Hunter's 

 collections, and which was afterwards the scene of the labours of Quekett, 

 Owen and Flower. 



The members and visitors (a large party) assembled in the Hall of the 

 College in Lincolns Inn Fields at 3 o'clock, and were received by Prof. 

 Stewart, who acted as "conductor." His genius as an expositor of difficult 

 facts in morphology and biology is well-known to most London students, and 

 on this afternoon he kept the attention and interest of the party to the end of 

 a long survey of this magnificent collection. It would be quite impossible to 

 give even an idea of the riches of the Museum ; for professional students 

 there is a collection of preparations and models illustrating comparative 

 anatomy, physiology, pathology and surgery, probably unrivalled in Europe. 

 And for the ordinary naturalist there are many series of great interest and 

 educational value, relating to classification, mimicry, embryology, &c. The 

 collection of ethnological specimens is also very fine. And under Professor 

 Stewart's care, these biological series are increasing, and are quite abreast of 

 the most recent results of science. 



The great ingenuity of many of the methods of exhibiting specimens 

 was much commented on, and in no museum can be seen such successful 

 " wet-preparations '' as at Lincolns Inn Fields. 



