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NATURE NOTES 
Farm at 5.30. Guide, Mr. E. A. Martin, F.G.S., Hon. Sec., Crohamhurst 
Preservation Committee. 
Saturday, April2.<^. — Meet at Ongar Station on arrival of train leaving Liver- 
pool Street at 2.8, and hence to Greensted to view Saxon Church, &c. Return 
fare, 3s. id. Guide, Mr. S. Austin. 
NEWS FROM THE BRANCHES. 
Clapton. — The Annual Meeting was held at the North East London Institute 
on March 18, when the Report was read and adopted. Mr. J. D. Hardy, F.G.S., 
was elected a V ice-President to fill the vacancy caused by the removal of Dr. 
Gerard Smith from the district; and Mr. C. Nicholson, F.G.S., was elected as 
delegate to the Council. All other officers were re-elected. 
The meeting was followed by the last of the winter lectures, which was given 
by Mr. S. Austin on Gothic Architecture, Mr. Jas. Wheeler kindly giving excellent 
lantern illustrations to the same. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
Miss Angus. — The young leaf sent is not that of Archangelica officinalis, 
nor do I recognise it as a British plant. Is it the giant cow-parsnip of Siberia 
(Heracleum giganteum) ? Please send specimen of flower, leaf and fruit later. 
Col. Harris. — Nothing seems to have been done as yet in breeding pearl 
oysters. The work most germane to the matter is a “ Report on Pearl Fisheries 
and Chank Fisheries,” by Hon. Henry Sullivan Thomas, F.Z.S., Madras 
Government Press, 1884. 
Miss M. C. Schultz. — The mosses have been determined by Mr. A. 
Gepp, F. L.S., to be Fissidens taxifolius, Barbtila muralis, Funaria kygro- 
metrica, Bryum atropurpureum, Brachythecium rutabulum and Eurhynchium 
prcelongum. 
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