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Such a church is St. John the Baptist, Loughton, which, 100 years ago,
was built on a new site to replace the original church of St. Nicholas,
contemporary with the Abbey of Waltham. Many passers-by wonder about
the history of the little chapel in Rectory Lane, which is all that remains of
St. Nicholas. Here is the story of the two churches, written with care and
erudition.
The book, of 13 pages with four illustrations, is published in connection
with the Centenary of St. John's Church, and may be obtained from the
author at the price of 1s.
C. B. P.
REPORTS OF MEETINGS
ORDINARY MEETING (855th Meeting)
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27TH, 1945
This date saw the Club reassembled in its headquarters at Stratford
for the first time since the spring of 1939, after six years of war evacuation.
The President, Dr. Frank W. Jane, opened the proceedings at 3 o'clock
in the Physics Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College by welcoming the
members back to their old meeting-place. Thirty-four members and
visitors attended.
The following candidates were elected to membership of the Club:—
Miss E. E. Coulling, of 67, Blacklands Road. Beckenham Hill, S.E.6.
Miss M. S. Johnson, of 45, Vista Drive, Ilford.
Mr. A. B. Teverson, of 4, Little Plucketts Way, Buckhurst Hill.
Miss G. Lister read a short account of additional records of plants noted
by her since 1941 (the date of her account published in the Essex Naturalist,
vol. xxvii, p. 121) in the Wanstead neighbourhood; her list comprised
52 additional plants (vide E.N, xxvii, p. 293).
Mr. Richter exhibited some excellent photographs of "Jacobs," Bright-
lingsea, as restored recently.
Mr. Pratt brought an interesting exhibit of various butterflies and moths
taken by him during 1945. He read a short paper on the life histories and
present-day local status of the species shown, which included the White
Admiral, Comma and Red Admiral butterflies, the Humming-bird Hawk-
moth, and the Puss and Poplar Kitten moths.
Mr. Warren showed pebbles (some broken) which he had found near
Clacton on the foreshore in a basin-shaped hollow; the stones were packed
so as to fill the hollow and had evidently been collected by Neolithic man
for some definite but unknown purpose; they were not "potboilers."
Mr. Scourfield exhibited blue-green algae from various Epping Forest
ponds. One of these, Aphanothece prasina, forms small balls of jelly,
resembling green peas; the other, Microcystis aeruginosa, floats freely in the
water. He also showed winter-eggs within their special case (ephippium)
of Daphnia longispina.
Mr. Ross exhibited and presented various myxomycetes, some of them
rather rare, from Epping Forest and Badhamia macrocarpa from Wanstead
Park, a species which has not been recorded from that locality for many
years.
The President exhibited and presented mounted specimens of various
plants collected in North Wales, including a rare Euphorbia, at present not
definitely determined; also specimens of the ascomycetous fungus, Cordyceps
militaris, which feeds on caterpillars and pupae resting beneath the surface
of the soil; and of the Chinese species, C. sinensis, which is used as a drug.