NOTES.—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 
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8vo., 21 pp.) 2 In his preface, he says that, “ with few excep¬ 
tions, the plants have been found by the writer himself, and no 
other species has been admitted into the list but upon good 
authority.” He adds that the list is “ the result of more than 
twenty years’ careful observation.” The species recorded 
number 317. 
Freeman also supplied to Gibson localities of plants he 
had found in the neighbourhood of Stratford. 3 
[Since the foregoing was written, Mr. W. H. Freeman has 
presented the three herbaria to the Museum of the Essex 
Field Club, at Stratford.—E d.] 
J. P. Johnson: Obituary-Notice.— We deeply regret 
to announce the death, at the early age of 38, of this former 
member of the Club, whom many will remember. Born in 
London in 1880, he was educated at Dulwich College and the 
Royal School of Mines. In 1902, considerations of health 
compelled him to migrate to South Africa, where he died at 
Johannesburg on 18th October last, from pneumonia following 
an attack of influenza. His contributions to geological science 
and prehistory are valuable and numerous. He contributed 
many papers to the pages of this journal and will always be 
remembered by his valuable discoveries in the Pleistocene 
Deposits of Ilford. It is, indeed, largely owing to his enthusiasm 
and keen hunting that our knowledge of this deposit is so w'ell 
founded. Mention should also be made of his paper on the 
Eocene Flora and Fauna of Walton-on-Naze (Essex Naturalist , 
xi., pp. 284-7). Many of his Essex specimens were given by 
him some time ago to our Museum at Stratford. He was a 
member of the Council of the Geological Society of South Africa 
and was appointed by the South African Government a member 
of the Commission to report on the petroglyphs and rock- 
paintings of South Africa, many of which are reproduced m his 
Prehistoric Period in South Africa (2nd edition, 1912). 
Occurrence of Trout in the River Roding. —On the 
6th October, while angling for chub in the Roding, I w r as much 
surprised to catch a ten-inch trout. It w r as in fine condition, 
and the herring-like colour, absence of red, abundance 
of stellate black spots, slender jaws, and dark-tipped adipose 
fin all indicate that the fish v r as not the common Er g ish Brook 
2 There is a copy of this work in the Club’s Library. 
3 Flora of Essex (1862), p. xx. 
