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and red ; it is not used for cabinet-work, but for keels of 

 ships, foundations of bridges, coffins, and formerly for water- 

 pipes. At the age of about 150 years Elms begin to decay. 



Evening Meeting. — April 25th, 1884. 



Mr. A. J. Crosfield exhibited a fungus {Morchella crassipes) 

 gathered on the banks of the Esk, in Yorkshire, by Mr. 

 Philip Sewell. Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.E.S., 

 &c., stated that a similar species of Morell grows in the 

 Deodar-forests in Kashmir, and is largely used by the natives 

 for food. It is also eaten in France. 



Mr. Thos. Cooper exhibited some Oak-wood, from the 

 FuUers'-earth pits, stained a light green colour. Dr. Bossey 

 explained that the colour was due to a fungus. The stained 

 wood is used in Tunbridge Wells-ware. Dr. Halifax grew 

 the fungus from the spores thus obtained, breaking the Oak 

 into the consistency of sawdust, and placing it on damp 

 blotting-paper under a bell-glass. 



The President mentioned that Mr. H. W. Gilbert felt the 

 late shock of eartnquake (on April 22nd) at Limpsfield. 



Lieut.-Col. H.H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S.,F.E.G.S.,F.Z.S., 

 then described "The Great Moraine at Ivrea": — 



Ivrea lies about thirty miles to the north-west of Turin, 

 and opposite the great valley of the Dora Baltea, which flows 

 down from the Mont Blanc range. The East Lateral Moraine, 

 known as La Serra, is fifteen miles in length ; the West 

 Lateral Moraine, which is more broken, extends seventeen 

 miles, and the arc to the south is twenty-six miles round. 

 La Serra rises to a height of 1500 ft. above the present level 

 of the plain. 



There is clear evidence, from the markings on the rocks, 

 that the Val Dora was formerly filled by a glacier up to a 

 height of 2000 ft. above the present valley. The Susa Valley 

 was also then filled with ice, which came down to the hills 

 around Turin. Similar enormous glaciers are now at work 

 in the Pir Pnnjaub Eange, in Kashmir, bearing along enormous 

 blocks of granite. 



