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G. fornicatus Fries. The outer peridium splits into two layers, an 
outer cup-shaped layer which remains in the ground, and an inner leathery 
layer, which divides into four or five long reflexed lobes, attached by their 
tips to the outer layer; inner peridium small, dark brown, opening by a 
conical mouth. 
In pastures, heaths and under firs. The specimen exhibited was from a 
garden at Hitchin. 
Miss Edith Prince exhibited and presented to the Museum a specimen 
of Geastey Bryantiit Berk., found by her last September, on sandy soil, be- 
tween Chingford and High Beach. Some specimens found on the occasion 
were already expanded, others were entire, and might almost have been 
mistaken for small pebbles at a casual glance. This species differs from 
the preceding by the inner peridium being stalked, and the stalk surrounded 
above and below by a prominent collar ; the inner peridium, which is mottled 
grey and buff, opens by a conical deeply-furrowed mouth. This appears 
to be the first record of an Earth Star from the Epping Forest district. 
Mr. Nicholson also exhibited and presented a Geaster from Norfolk. 
In connection with these exhibits, Mr. Hugh Main mentioned that 
in September last he had seen hundreds of Earth Stars in the South of 
France, in the dried-up portion of a river-bed. 
Miss Lister also exhibited two large mycetozoans, Lindbladia effusa from 
Oxshott, and Brefeldia maxima which had appeared spontaneously in her 
own garden at Leytonstone. 
Mr. Hugh Main exhibited various living insects from the South of France, 
including the Praying Mantis (Mantis religiosa), the spiders Lycosa nar- 
bonnensis, with young clustered on the parent’s back, and Clotha durandt, 
the small black scorpion (Scorpio europaeus), a larger yellow scorpion (Buthus 
occitanus) and a small lizard; and also the Giant Shore Earwig (Labidura 
vipavia) from the shore at Bournemouth. 
The Curator exhibited six specimen-drawers from the large Cabinet 
of British Lepidoptera, bequeathed to the Stratford Museum by the late 
Mr. William Cole, also an oil-painting by Mr. H. A. Cole, representing his 
brothers and others “sugaring”’ for night-flying moths in Lords Bushes, 
Epping Forest, about 1885; and a home-made “ sugaring ’’-lantern made 
by Mr. H. A. Cole, both of which latter had been given by Mr. Cole to the 
Museum. 
Mr. Mera read a report which he had prepared on the Cole Collection of 
Lepidoptera (printed ante, p. 172). 
The thanks of the meeting were given to Mr. Mera for his report, and to 
the several exhibitors and donors. 
Mr. T. A. Dymes, F.L.S., then read a paper “ On Collecting and Curating 
Fruits and Seeds for the Study of Local Dispersal,’’ illustrating same by 
the exhibition of an extensive collection of preserved fruits and seeds. At 
the conclusion of the paper, the President referred appreciatively to Mr. 
Dymes’s collection which, to his knowledge, had been very many years in 
the making, and commented on the carefully thought-out manner in which 
it was arranged to economise space. Miss Lister, Mr. Whitaker and the 
Hon. Secretary also spoke with appreciation of Mr. Dymes’s method, and 
a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to the author. 
In expressing thanks for his cordial reception, Mr. Dymes called atten- 
