22 SHORT HISTORY OF ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
the age of the dubious "Pillow-Mounds" at Highbeach in
Epping Forest; and in 1926 and 1927, further investigations of
Loughton Camp were carried out and full reports published of
the results in each case. The funds necessary for these re-
searches were furnished by the just defunct Morant Club which,
after an existence of 15 years, during which many useful investi-
gations had been carried out, was dissolved in 1925 and its balance
of funds divided equally between our Club and the Essex
Archaeological Society.
In March, 1926, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, I.S.O., F.L.S., F.Z.S.,
etc., succeeded Sir A. Smith Woodward in the Presidential chair,
an office which he still retains.
In the summer of this year, members of the Club took a lead-
ing part in contributing articles to a handbook entitled "Essex
Survey," which was published in connection with the Congress
meeting of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies at
Colchester in June.
In March, 1928, the Club was requested by the Conservators
of Epping Forest to watch certain experiments by the College
of Pestology, purporting to be destructive to the aquatic larvae
of mosquitoes. The experiments, which consisted of scattering
a dilute mixture of Paris Green over the surface of ponds in which
the larvae were likely (but not proved) to be present, were duly
made in the Spring of that year ; but they altogether failed to
carry conviction of their efficacy to the minds of the watchers.
It will be remembered that in 1919 Mr. Miller Christy had
contemplated the preparation of a Supplementary volume on
"Essex Birds." He had, however, not felt equal to the task,
and later he agreed to hand over his notes on the subject to Mr.
W. E. Glegg, who proposed to issue an entirely new book on the
"Birds of Essex." For some three years negotiations were
carried on between the Council and Mr. Glegg with the object
of the book being published as another "Special Memoir" of
the Club ; but mutually satisfactory terms could not be agreed,
and the volume was ultimately, at the beginning of 1929, issued
by Mr. Glegg as his own personal venture.
In October, 1928, the Club passed a Resolution urging the
Conservators of Epping Forest to do their utmost to abolish
the intolerable noise created by the new development of "Dirt
Track Racing" by motor-cycles at High Beach. During the