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showing a tendency to return to the “ Ash-Oak-Wood characteristic, 
of the clay. Here Alchemilla vulgaris, Listera ovata, and other flowers 
were obtained. 
On leaving the waste, a large heap of stone gathered from the land 
surface was noticed, and numerous erratics of Neocomian sandstone,, 
Jurassic limestones with included fossils,and other specimens were obtained. 
Mr. Hazzledine Warren gave an interesting demonstration on the manu¬ 
facture of flint implements, and with the greatest ease produced “ fakes 
of characteristic types. 
Thence the club drove to Hadstock. Here a halt was made at 
the church. This church (St. Botolph) showed interesting pre-Conquest 
architectural detail in the door arch and nave. The door once bore a 
human skin said to be that of a sacrilegious Dane. The fine Jacobean 
reading desk and medieval rood screen with its carvings of the fox preaching 
to the geese were also noted. The big sycamore growing before the 
church was admired, and its growth estimated. 
A two mile drive over the intervening hill brought the party to Bart- 
low, where a substantial meat tea was provided at the “ Three Hills Hotel.'* 
In the Hadstock district a search was made for Lichens and Mosses. 
Time did not permit of an extended search for Cryptogams, but Mr. 
Percy Thompson has furnished the Editor with the following lists of 
species observed :— 
Ramalina calicaris 
Evernia prunastri. 
Parmelia perlata. 
P. borreri. 
P. fuliginosa. 
Physcia parietina, 
LICHENS. 
P. stellaris, sub sp. tenella. 
P. lychnea. 
Lecanora subfusca. 
Squamaria saxicola. 
Buellia canescens. 
var cinerascens. B. myriocarpa. 
MOSSES. 
Hypnum molluscum. 
H. riparium. 
Brachythecium pur am. 
B. rutabulum. 
Eurhynchium confertum. 
Neckera complanata. 
Porotrichum alopecurum. 
Orthotrichum sp. 
Funaria hygrometrica. 
Tortula subulata. 
Amblystegium flicinum. 
A. serpens. 
Plagiothecium denticulatum. 
7 'ortula muralis. 
Camptothecium sericeum 
A short formal Meeting (the 423rd) was held, the President being 
in the chair. 
Miss Mary Champness, of 47, Bulwer Road, Leytonstone, was elected 
a member. 
After tea at the invitation of Mrs. Brocklebank, the gardens of the. 
Hall were visited. Here the lull effect of the disastrous hail storm of 
27th May was seen, the greenhouses, frames, etc., having suffered severely* 
and over 1,000 panes of glass destroyed. 
The party then proceeded towards the hills, where Mr. Guy Maynard 
gave a short address on the excavation and antiquities of them. He 
said :— 
“ The Bartlow Hills are not only the finest group of tumuli in Essex* 
