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remains to be done in unravelling the conditions under which 

 both Wealden and Lower Greensaud beds were formed in different 

 parts of their outcrop. The last word has not been said either 

 on the formation of flint and of flints, or on that of combes and 

 pipes in the chalk or of your own Elephant Bed, and an 

 immense amount of work is urgently needed on the zones of the 

 chalk with special reference to the distribution of foraminifera 

 throughout the series. 



If I know of abundance of geological work still crying out 



for field-workers, I am aware of even more, I think, waiting to 



be done in Botany. The distribution of sea- weeds bathy metrically 



and geographically along our coast, and almost everything anent 



their methods of reproduction, await the attention alike of those 



who dredge, of those who confine their attention to the shore, and 



of the microscopists. Still more imperfect is our knowledge of 



the fresh-water algae, whilst there is, I believe, nothing known at 



all as to their distribution in the various river drainage systems 



and estuaries of the county. Whilst algae are readily preserved 



and furnish such beautiful herbaria that their study has long been 



graced by the many ladies who have been attracted by it, the 



study of fungi has, no doubt, suffered from the fact that they are 



mostly somewhat difficult to preserve, besides being often only 



too casual and transient in their occurrence. While, however, 



the smaller and microscopic forms, most of which are parasitic, 



the rusts, mildews and moulds, and that marvellous isolated group 



the Myxomycetes — about all of which our knowledge of species, 



of their life histories, and of their distribution, is most imperfect 



— afford material for the microscopist, and more especially for the 



micro-photographer, or the draughtsman with the camera lucida ; 



there are methods of preserving the larger forms, such as that 



described by the late James English : water colour drawings by 



competent artists are often capable of being specifically identified ; 



and even a "nature-print" of the gills, traced in their own spores, 



which any one can take with a little gum and some black blotting 



paper, may be a valuable record. There is no more enjoyable a 



form of autumnal natural history ramble than a fungus foray, 



whether followed by experiments on the esculent qualities of the 



group as adjuncts to more substantial viands, or not. Few who 



have not collected are aware of the wide range of colour and 



beauty of outline presented by the numerous species : it is only in 



a very few long-worked localities such as Epping Forest and the 



neighbourhood of Hereford that we have anything like a 



knowledge of the variety of species that may occur ; and even in 



these areas several species new to science, or at least new to 



