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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
larger number than the present income of the Club will bear. The remaining part
for 1891, as well as the parts for January to March, 1892, are now being printed off,
and will soon be in the members' hands. The Naturalist will then be quite
up to date. The alteration of the rules with respect to the subscription to the
journal has worked well, about 300 members having agreed to subscribe the extra
4s. 6d. per annum. This is a large proportion of the entire membership, a pro-
portion that may be expected to increase, as almost every new member subscribes.
It should be remembered that the Honorary and Life members receive the
Naturalist free, and also that our roll includes many married couples, and
relatives living in the same house, who naturally take but one copy. It may be
anticipated that ninety per cent. of the members will ultimately subscribe to our
publication.
The papers printed in the Essex Naturalist maintained the valuable feature of
treating mainly of Essex subjects, and they were in many instances original contri-
butions towards an accurate knowledge of the natural productions and phenomena
of our county. The Council has to thank Mr. Walter Crouch for the block of
the Fairlop Oak, published in the Essex Naturalist, and Mr. H. A. Cole for
several drawings and blocks which he has prepared free of cost to the Club.
"Journal of Proceedings, E.F.C."—It will be remembered that on the
establishment of the Essex Naturalist in January, 1887, the volume of the
Journal of Proceedings was left unfinished, and the pressure of other matters
has hitherto prevented the publication of the missing part. The Council is now
very glad to announce that the whole of the matter has been prepared by Mr.
Cole, and is in type, and that the part will be published in a few weeks' time.
It will contain extended reports of all meetings of the Club from February 23rd,
1884, to January 29th, 1887 (together with Title and Index to vol. iv. of the Pro-
ceedings), after which date reports appeared in the Essex Naturalist,—as well
as the sixth and seventh Annual Reports of the Council, and many small papers
which remained unpublished during the years 1884 to 1887.
The part is, of course, absolutely indispensable to complete the set of the
"Transactions" and "Proceedings" of the Club, which will then consist of five
volumes containing about 1,490 pages.
The printing of the limited edition of the part will possibly cost about £50,
and the Council has fixed the price at 5s. to Members, and 6s. 6d. to Non-
members, post free.
It is hoped that every member possessing the Transactions will take this
part to complete their sets, and to save the Club from serious loss by reason of its
publication.
Meetings and Papers, etc., Contributed.—Thirteen Ordinary and
Field Meetings have been held, and the remarks made in the last Annual Report
as to the interest of most of the meetings fully apply to those held in the past
year. At these meetings a considerable number of papers have been read, and
most of them have been already printed in the Essex Naturalist, together
with others which have been communicated direct to the Editor. In addition to
these, very many smaller "notes" have been printed, as well as extended reports
of the meetings of the Club.
Field Meetings have been held in Epping Forest to view the recent addition
of portion of Highams Park to the Forest; at Newport and (Quendon Hall, where
the Club was most hospitably received at luncheon by Lieut.-Col. A. M.