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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB 
ORDINARY MEETING (THE 478th MEETING). 
SATURDAY, 27TH OCTOBER igij. 
The first Meeting of the Winter Session was held at 3 o’clock on the 
above afternoon in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal Technical 
Institute, Romford Road, Stratford, the President (Miss G. Lister, F.L.S.) 
being in the chair. Some 44 Members attended. 
The following were elected members of the Club :— 
Miss M. S. Elliott, Ursuline Convent, Forest Gate. 
Miss Williamson, Hill Hall, Theydon Mount, Epping. 
Mr. F. G. Dell, The Hut , Russell Road, Buckhurst Hill. 
Mr. F. T. Vail ins, 372, Sherrard Road, Manor Park. 
The Report of the Club’s Delegate to the British Association Meeting, 
1917, was given viva-voce by Mr. William W r hitaker, B.A., F.R.S., etc. 
Mr. F. J. Stubbs exhibited, and presented to the Club’s Museum on 
behalf of Mr. A. H. Tozer, a young Corncrake (Crex pratensis ) in down, 
from a nest at Piercing Hill, Theydon Bois, taken in July last ; and 
remarked on the scarcity of this bird in south-east England. 
Mr. Stubbs also exhibited a Squirrel from Epping Forest, and observed 
that the old English Squirrel, formerly common in the Forest, seemed 
now to be superseded by a continental form (Sciurus vulgar is-fuse oat a), 
specimens of which were turned out some years ago by the late Mr. C. 
E. Green, of Epping. This continental form seemed to be thriving in 
the Forest, and the specimen exhibited was one of these aliens. 
Major Sir Robert Armstrong Jones, J.P., F.S.A., etc., then gave a 
a lecture on “ Plants that have figured in Herbals and Simples.” The 
lecture was illustrated by a series of lantern photographs taken from 
illustrations in old herbals, and by a further series, illustrating various 
poisonous plants used in medicine, which were exhibited by Mr. Nicholson. 
A greatly appreciated further illustration ox the subject was afforded 
by a special exhibit of Old Herbals, kindly lent by Miss E. Willmott, 
F. L.S., by the President, by Mr. H. W. Lewer, F.S.A., and the Club’s 
own Library ; and Miss Willmott gave some account of the exhibit. 
Hearty thanks were accorded to the Lecturer and to Miss Willmott. 
A catalogue raisonne of the Herbals exhibited on this occasion, which 
has been kindly drawn up by the President, appears hereafter (pp. 286-291). 
CRYPTOGAMIC FORAY, THEYDON BOIS 
BEACH (479th MEETING). 
TO HIGH 
SATURDAY, IOTH NOVEMBER I917. 
An all-day foray was held in Epping Forest on this date for the col¬ 
lection of cryptogamic plants,-under the direction of the following experts : 
j The President. 
{ Miss A. Hibbert-Ware, F.L.S. 
Mr. L. B. Hall, F.L.S. 
j Miss A. Lorrain Smith, F.L.S. 
Ulr. R. Paulson, F.L.S. 
Starting from Theydon Bois station at ii.iS o’clock, the party, 
numbering eventually some 35 persons, proceeded by Oak Hill, Jack's 
Myxomycetes 
Mosses and Hepatics 
Lichens 
