284 THE EOCENE FLORA AND FAUNA. 



In summarising the chief points in this report I wish to 

 emphasise the following : — 



1. That wherever a district near London has been examined, it has 



been found to be infected, but in no case have the trees suffered 

 so much as at Lord's Bushes. 



2. That the disease has shown itself to be much more destructive 



during this autumn than at any time last year. 



3. That Melanconis stilbostoma does occur on living branches and 



causes their death, but like Valsa oxystoma, it, as a rule, reaches 

 its perfection on dead branches only. 



4. That the course of the disease is very rapid. 



I wish to thank Mr. W. Cole, the Hon. Sec. of the Club, 

 for the help he afforded me last autumn, and also Mr. McKenzie, 

 the Forest Superintendent, who so readily gave permission to 

 remove a large dead tree, when he heard of the investigation it 

 was proposed to make. 



My thanks are also due to Mr. G. E. Shaw and to Mr. J. H. 

 Pledge for the photographs that illustrate this report. 



THE EOCENE FLORA AND FAUNA OF 

 WALTON-NAZE, ESSEX. 



By J. P. JOHNSON. 



[Read November 24th, WOO.] 



In 1887 the Geological Survey published Mr. W. W'hitaker's 

 memoir on The Geolofj;v of the Eastern End of Essex. The only 

 Eocene fossils listed in it are some Chelonians antl a Mammal 

 from the London Clay of Harwich. Not a single species is 

 noted from Walton-Naze, and 1 do not know of any subsequent 

 record. 



Many years have passed since I last visited this classical 

 locality, and some of the fossils mentioned below are no longer 

 in my collection, but I remember the specimens and the finding 

 of them so well that I have no hesitation in listing them. They 

 were found on the foreshore between Walton-Naze and Frinton, 

 among the patches of iron-pyrites left behind by the retreating 

 tide, and were evidently washed out of the London Clay cliffs. 

 Those of the specimens that I have been able to find I have 

 handed over to the Essex Field Club's Museum at Stratford- 

 They are indicated by an asterisk. 



