THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
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ORDINARY MEETING (THE 464th MEETING). 
Saturday, 28th October 1916. 
This, the first meeting of the Winter Session, was held at 3 o’clock 
in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal Technical Institute, 
Stratford, Mr. W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S. (in the absence of the President),, 
in the chair. 
The following were elected members of the Club :— 
Miss M. W. Savage, of 77, Leybourne Road, Leytonstone. 
Miss Woollett, of Canterbury Road Schools, Leytonstone. 
Miss E. G. Brimson, of 2, Argyle Road, Stratford. 
Miss Winifred de Lisle, of 58, Tyrwhitt Road, Brockley, S.E. 
Captain Somerville Hastings, M.R.C.S., of 43, Devonshire Street, W. 
Mr. J. J. Jackson, of 30, Windsor Road, Wanstead. 
Mr. Hemington Pegler, M.D., of 53, Queen Anne Street, Cavendish 
Square, W. 
Reports were received from the Club’s Delegates (Mr. D. J. Scourfield, 
F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., and Mr. W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., respectively), 
relative to the Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies 
at Tunbridge-Wells in May 1916, and the Meeting of the Corresponding 
Societies’ Committee at the British Association Meeting at Newcastle ; 
and thanks were accorded to the delegates for their Reports. 
A paper on “ Desmids, with special reference to those found in Essex," 
was then read by Mr. Joseph Wilson, F.R.M.S., the paper being copiously 
illustrated by lantern diagrams and photographs and by mounted 
specimens exhibited under microscopes. A cordial vote of thanks was 
passed to Mr. Wilson. 
CRYPTOGAMIC RAMBLE IN EPPING FOREST 
(465TH MEETING). 
Saturday, iith November 1916. 
This field-meeting was attended by nearly forty members and visitors,, 
under the expert conductorship of Miss A. Hibbert-Ware, F.L.S., who 
acted as referee for the Mvxomycetes, Mr. L. B. Hall, F.L.S., and Mr. 
W. R. Sherrin, who undertook the identification of the mosses and hepatics, 
and Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S., and Mr. Robert Paulson, F.L.S., who 
undertook that of the lichens. 
The route was from Loughton station through the village to York 
Hill, where the Forest was entered, and thence through the woodlands 
by way of Blackweir Hill, Great Monk Wood, and the Wake Valley, to 
High Beach. At York Hill, Mr. Whitaker called attention to the fine 
examples of landslips in the London Clay on the sharp western slope of 
the Hill, where no tree-roots occur to buttress the clay ; and Mr. Paulson 
jxfinted out the abundance of the soil-lichen, Lecidea uliginosa, which 
clothes bare patches of ground with a purple stain. 
Several finds of interest were recorded in the various classes of 
cryptogamic plants. Mr. J. Ross noted the moss Mnium punctatum in 
fruit by one of the Forest brooks, and Mrs. Thompson was fortunate in 
again finding Leucobryum glaucum, with young fruiting capsules, in Great 
