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THE ESSEX NATURALIST. 
Mr. Thompson has shown, incorporated with his, there is abundant proof 
of much good work by Edward during the twenty years that followed 
Benjamin’s death. 0 
The MS. note by William Pamplin which Mr. Thompson has des- 
scribed is unquestionably by the late bookseller of Frith Street, Soho, as 
the speaker recognised both paper and handwriting as identical with 
notes sent to him, and the link now traced between Pamplin’s family and 
the Forsters of Walthamstow was most interesting. 
A vote of thanks was passed to the author of the paper. 
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CRYPTOGAMIC FORAY IN EPPING FOREST 
(508th MEETING). 
SATURDAY, I5TH NOVEMBER, I9I9. 
Favoured by dry, sunny weather, albeit with a cold northerly wind, 
some 40 members and friends assembled at Theydon Bois station at 11-30 
o’clock, and proceeded via, the Green, to the Forest. The route taken was 
by Epping Thicks and the neighbourhood of Ambresbury Banks, Long 
Running, the “ Wake Arms,” Verderer’s Path, and Honey Lane Quarters 
to Highbeach. Collections of cryptogamic plants were made all along 
the route, under the supervision of the referees for .the day, who were :— 
For the Mosses and Hepatics . . Messrs. L. B. Hall, F.L.S., and 
W. R. Sherrin, A.L.S. 
For the Lichens . . . . . . Mr. R. Paulson, F.L.S. 
For the Fungi and the Myxomycetes. . The President. 
Notwithstanding the unusually dry season and low temperature, a 
fair number and variety of specimens were met with, and the “ finds ” 
included one or two rare and interesting discoveries. 
At Highbeach, Mr. Hugh Main, F.E.S., gave a most interesting field- 
demonstration (non-botanical), by digging out an individual specimen 
of our British “ Trap Door Spider ” ( Atypus affinis), with its silken home 
complete, from a sandy bank. This was appropriated for the Club’s 
Museum. 
Tea was taken at the Roserville Retreat, Highbeach, at 4.15 o’clock, 
following which, a Meeting of the Club was held, with the President (Miss 
G. Lister, F.L.S.) in the chair, when Mr. Charles Witwell, of 29, Park 
Road, Wanstead, was elected a Member. 
The President referred sympathetically to the regretted absence, owing 
to illness, of one of our conductors. Miss Lorrain Smith, F.L.S., and then 
called upon each of the referees for a report on the finds of the day. 
Mr. Hall reported that the yield of Mosses was exceptionally good, no 
fewer than 46 species having been met with during the Foray ; while 13 
hepatics had been identified. Mr. Hall gave a general account of the Bryo- 
phytes in their relation to the neighbouring groups—higher and lower— 
of cryptogams. 
Mr. Sherrin reported that the two most interesting forms met with 
were Sphagnum fnibviatum and Dicravuni flagellare. 
Mr. Paulson reported that 17 forms of lichens had been identified 
during the ramble, and added an account of the algal cells in lichens and 
Their peculiar mode of increase. 
