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Barlaea ciiinabarina, Sacc. On the ground among moss. 

 Eiirotium Juibariorum, Link. On rotten leaves. 

 Eutypa flavo-virescens. Tul. On the bark of hornbeam. 

 Diatrypa stigma. Fries. On liornbeam bark. 

 Tubeycularia vulgaris, Tode. On fallen branches of beach. 

 At about 6 o'clock the ramble terminated at the " King's Oak " Hotel, 

 High Beach, where tea had been provided. 



An Ordinary Meeting of the Club (the 194th) was held for the election 

 of New Members, Mr. D. Howard, President, in the Chair. 



The following were elected Members ;-- Messrs. W. H. Baddeley, A. E. 

 Briscoe, B.Sc. &-c., Henry Hills, B.A., B.Sc , E.J. Lewis, F.ES., Walter 

 Robins, B.Sc, &c., F. G. Sinclair, M.A., F.L.S , and Robert Swaby, 

 Barrister-at-Law. 



Mr. Howard expressed the pleasure of the Member.s of the Essex Field 

 Club at the company of the Croydon Natural History Society, and congratu- 

 lated those present on the fine afternoon, and the very large attendance at the 

 meeting. 



Mr. N. F. Robarts, F.G.S., replied on behalf of the Croydon Natural 

 History Society. 



Mr. Massee gave a short address on the study of the Minute Forms of 

 Fungi, and alluded to the great importance of the subject, in view of the very- 

 serious injuries occasioned to field and garden crops by fungoid parasites. 

 He offered to do all in his power to assist any Members intending to take up 

 the study of this great group of plants in an intelligent and serious manner. 



Mr. 'W. Cole exhibited three specimens of Vivipava dactoncnsis, S. 'Wood, 

 of which species five specimens had been detected by Mr. W. M. Webb in a 

 small set of Pleistocene shells collected by the Rev. J. W. Kenworthy, at 

 Clacton, Essex, and presented by him to the Club. Previously only two 

 specimens were known, which were in the Woodwardian Museum at Cam- 

 bridge. Of the five specimens presented by Mr. Ivenworthy, two had been 

 placed in the British Museum, and the three exhibited would be added to the 

 collection of Pleistocene Mollusca in the Club's County Museum at Stratford 



Mr. Cole also exhibited on behalf of Mr. Edwin E. Turner, of Coggeshall, 

 two species of Micro-Fungi new to the Essex list, viz. ; Puccinia betonic^ from 

 Great Totham, and ^Ecidiuni leucospermiim from Witham. Mr. Turner had 

 kindly presented these specimens to the herbarium of the Club. 



After the meeting, the large party broke up into detachments, and 

 rambled home through the forest to Loughton, Chingford, and Buckhurst 

 Hill. 



VISIT TO CANVEY ISLAND, AND 195th ORDINARY 



MEETING. 



Saturday, June 30TH, igoo. 



In July last year, the Club visited Foulness Island, and the meeting was 

 much appreciated ; the present meeting was intended to afford members an 

 opportunity of seeing another of these alluvinl districts of Essex which have 

 been rescued from the waste of the sea bv the sliiU of man. As a walk across 



