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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB—REPORTS OF 
MEETINGS. 
ORDINARY MEETING (507th MEETING). 
SATURDAY, 25TH OCTOBER, I919. 
This Meeting 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., in the chair. 
The following ladies and gentleman were elected Members of the 
Club :— 
Miss Mabel A. Greaves, of Esme, New Wanstead, E. n. 
Mrs. L. Millburn, of 62, Herne Hill, S.E. 24. 
Mr. Ronald Bain Calder, of “ Wyvis,” Seagry Road, Wanstead. 
Mr. Percy Thompson exhibited fronds of the Royal Fern ( Osmunda 
regalis) which had been recently found by Mrs. Thompson in Epping 
Forest: the last recorded occurrence of this fern in the Forest was ante 
1854, at Chingford. The present specimen (which has been placed in 
the Club’s herbarium) was under a foot high, and showed no signs of 
having been introduced by human agency. 
Mr. Thompson also exhibited an album of lichens, mosses and fungi, 
which had been collected by Richard Warner, the author of “ Plantae 
Woodfordienses,” in the neighbourhoods of Gloucester, Worcester, and 
the Forest of Dean. This album was presented to the Club in its early 
days (in 1880) by Sir Clarke Jervoise, Bart., and had been lost sight of 
until recently : it had now been repaired, and the contained specimens 
mounted in such a manner as to allow Warner’s quaint manuscript records 
of their habitats to be readily examined. 
Mr. Thompson further exhibited, and presented to the Museum, a left 
lower ramus of the jaw of an Ox, with one tooth in sutu, and also a portion 
of a leg bone of an ox, both of which were covered with incrusting lichens 
and served to illustrate the rapid rate of growth of the latter. 
Mr. Charles Nicholson, F.E.S., exhibited, and presented to the Museum, 
a feeding platform of the Long-tailed Field Mouse (Mas sylvaticus), which 
appeared to be based upon a deserted bird’s nest. 
Mr. Avery exhibited a series of Essex prints selected to illustrate the 
neighbourhoods of Walthamstow, Leyton and Woodford. 
Votes of thanks were accorded to the several exhibitors and donors. 
Mr. W. Whitaker, B.A., F.R.S., gave a Report of the Conference of 
Delegates at the British Association Meeting at Bournemouth in September, 
1919. 
The thanks of the Mefeting were voted at Mr. Whitaker for his inter¬ 
esting report. 
The President then called upon Mr. Percy Thompson, F.L.S., who 
read a paper “ On an annotated copy of Warner’s ” Plantae Woodfordien¬ 
ses," ’’ which was illustrated by lantern photopraphs and by a display of 
photographs and by books referred to in the paper. 
In the course of the ensuing discussion. Professor Boulger, F.L.S., 
F.G.S., said that to him the paper had been one of great interest; some 
