Journal of Proceedings. 
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The President detailed the present position of the exploration of the 
Loughton Camp. Two cuttings had 1>een made, but the evidence 
obtained was not considered sufficient, and the committee had resolved 
to make another cutting at least. This would be commenced shortly, 
and in the meantime a preliminary report would be presented to the 
British Association at Southampton, giving an account of the work done, 
and asking for a renewal of the committee, with the addition of the name 
of Mr. Worthington Smith, F.L.S. 
Unanimous votes of thanks having been passed to Mr. Kent, Mr. Unwin, 
and the other gentlemen who had assisted during the afternoon, the meet¬ 
ing resolved itself into a conversazione, at which Mr. Oxley exhibited 
under his microscope Stephanoceros eicliornii and Floscularia cornuta; 
Mr. Thomas, Lopliognis cry stallinus and Fredericella sultana; Mr. Letch- 
ford, Limnias ceratopliylli and Vorticellce; Mr. Saville Kent, species 
of Hydrachnid® and various preparations of Zoophytes and Infusoria 
recently observed by him in Wales; Mr. Wire, 6 species of fossil shells 
from the Woolwich beds at Leyton; Mr. Fisher Unwin, various views of 
Chigwell and its neighbourhood ; Mr. Lister, water-colour drawings of 
Lemna and Vaucheria. Mr. English exhibited the following species 
of Orchidete, preserved by his process :— Orchis mascula, 0. maculata, 
0. morio, Habenaria bifolia, Ophrys apifera, Neottia nidus-avis and 
Listera ovata. Also 21 species of mosses from the Forest and 4 species 
of Equisetum : — E. maximum, E. arvense, E. palustre and E. limosum. 
About half-past 8 o’clock the very gratifying meeting broke up, some 
members driving to Woodford, others preferring to ramble through the 
sweet little village immortalised by Dickens, and across the water- 
meadows to Buckhurst Hill station. 
Monday, July 4th, 1882. 
This day, Sir Arthur Hobhouse, Q.C., the Arbitrator under the Epping 
Forest Act, attended at Old Palace Yard, Westminster, to sign the final 
award and official map which determines for all time the boundaries 
of the “free and open forest.” According to this map, Epping Forest 
consists of 5,580 acres, 3 roods and 17 perches.* 
Monday, May 29th, 1882, and following days: Monday, August 14th, 
1882, AND FOLLOWING DAYS. 
Preliminary Report on the Explorations at the Loughton Camp. 
In abstracting the few literary references to Ambresbury Banks, near 
Coptliall (‘Proceedings,’ vol. ii., xxx.), we incidentally referred to the 
* Keduced copies of this official map, on the scale of 3 inches to a mile, may be had at 
Stanford’s, Charing Cross, at 2s., or mounted on cloth, 6s.; and a cheaper (incomplete) 
edition at 6 d. Although not perfect, it is the best map hitherto published, and some 
members may be glad to know of its existence. 
