16 SHORT HISTORY OF ESSEX FIELD CLUB
tant Conference on the subject of "River Pollution," which was
held at Stratford, when many scientific men and others interested
in the matter expressed their views. A Resolution was passed,
urging Government action to deal with the general question of
water-supply throughout the Kingdom, as well as with the
disposal of sewage and of effluents from factories.
In 1908, Mr. Christy retired from the presidential office in
favour of Mr. T. S. Dymond, F.C.S., F.I.C.
During the summer of 1909, the Club, fortified by a grant of
£100 from the Essex County Council, undertook the task of
locating and re-erecting the old Boundary Stones of Hainault
Forest. This useful piece of work was satisfactorily completed
and was inspected by the Club on July 31st of that year.
In December, 1909, having already assisted Mr. Cole for some
time in connection with the field-meetings, the present writer
was appointed honorary Excursions Secretary, and on January
29, 1910, attended the Council meeting in this capacity for the
first time. Within six months from then, Mr. Cole's health broke
down seriously and I was appointed Acting Secretary of the Club.
At. the same time, the then President, Mr. Dymond, was also
incapacitated by illness ; Mr. Miller Christy consented to serve as
Acting President pending his recovery. This coincident absence
of both President and Secretary imposed much responsibility
and hard work upon the as yet inexperienced Acting Secretary.
To carry on the routine work of the Stratford Museum the
Council decided to appoint a temporary Committee to advise
and assist the Museum assistant, and Mr. Christy undertook to
edit the Essex Naturalist temporarily.
In 1910, Messrs. Christy and Thresh's paper on the "Mineral
Waters and Medicinal Springs of Essex" was reprinted, with
additions, as "Special Memoir, No. 4" of the Club.
In July of this year the Morant Club was founded to investi-
gate by actual spadework the archaeological remains of the County
and was recognised officially by our Club, which published
some of the resulting reports. In March, 1911, the latter became
affiliated to the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies.
By the opening of 1911, Mr. Cole's health was temporarily
re-established and he resumed his duties. The President also
had by this time recovered health. The present writer was
appointed by the Council an additional "Assistant Secretary."