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parts of Transactions in the two years and a half. It has occurred to me that, 

 being constituted so like ourselves, an account of one of their field days will not 

 only be entertaining to most ot you, but may also be suggestive of some valuable 

 ideas of which we may take advantage, so as to render our own excursions as 

 attractive as it is possible to make them. The excursion referred to was held on 

 25th June, at Chigwell, in Essex. The beautiful scenery around this place has 

 been graphically described by Dickens in his " Barnaby Rudge." The members 

 of the Club met at the railway station and then walked to Chigwell, a distance 

 of about two miles, through lovely English lanes. I say English lanes, and I think 

 anyone who has ever seen one will appreciate my drawing special attention to them 

 They are a characteristic feature, and I believe not to be found of the same des- 

 cription in any other country. Few things are more beautiful ; their steep banks of 

 refreshing green, surmounted by well trimmed hedges, and clothed from top to 

 bottom with feathery grasses and lovely flowers, breathing firth delicious odours, 

 have an eflfect little less than enchanting on visitors from other climes. Their 

 beauty is ever varying ; plant after plant throughout the whole summer, 

 succeeding in its turn, claims the reward of its effort by forcing up its head 

 into the sunlight to bear its corolla or crown of glory ; the gay butterfly 

 with bejewelled wings adds its charm to the scene ; and the hum of the bee 

 as it hurries by is no unimportant factor of the whole. Truly this sum of beauty 

 vShould be sufiieient to demand from all — the most unobservant — some small 

 share of attention. But is it so, my friends ? I regret, for the sake of the 

 happiness of the many, to have to say it is not. JWhile at Chigwell some of 

 the party took the opportunity to visit the Kingshead Inn mentioned by 

 Dickens, and the old parish church, which contains a rich collection of ancient 

 brasses and monuments. Two of the most interesting for their age are a monu- 

 ment to T. Cateshill, who died in 1593, and a brass to Archbishop Harsnett, 

 formerly master of the Grammar School there, and founder of two schoolf — one 

 for young children and the other for teaching Latin and Greek, and the 

 founder expressly stipulated that the master of the latter should be no " puffer 

 of tobacco." Perhaps there is no object of greater interest in the village than a 

 curious avenue of yew trees, which forms a covered way from the church 

 door to the road, a distance of about twenty yards. The trees st ind in two rows, 

 and, as far as I can remember, are about twelve feet apart ; the branches, springing 

 out horizontally about ten feet from the ground, meet overhead, and form so 

 dense a mass that it is quite impossible to see daylight tfarough them. The 

 trees are not large specimens, few of the trunks having a diameter of more than 

 twelve inches ; tbey are, however, supposed to be very old, and one of the mem- 

 bers, Mr. Unwin, who, before we left the churchyard, read a short and interest- 

 ing paper on the history of the parish, also exhibited an illustration ef the 

 churoh more than 100 years old, which showjd the avenue exactly the same a? 



