52 THE MANAGEMENT OF EPPING FOREST.
Hon. Secretary and Editor.—William Cole, F.E.S.; Assistant Hon.
Secretary.—B. G. Cole.
Hon. Librarians.—Edmund Durrant and E. A. Simons.
Hon. Counsel.—Charles Browne, M.A., F.S.A.; Hon. Solicitor.—
H. I. Coburn.]
Mr. Chalkley Gould proposed, and Mr. Crouch seconded, a vote of thanks to
the President for his address, which they considered would be a most useful paper
when printed in The Essex Naturalist, for all taking an intelligent interest
in the numerous grand relics of ancient architecture in our county.
Mr. Chancellor, in acknowledging the vote of thanks, said that in choosing a
subject for his address, it would have been useless compiling an essay on natural
history or kindred themes with which he was not specially acquainted ; he there-
fore selected architecture, a subject which he had studied the greater part of his
life, and in which he took the greatest interest, more especially from the point of
view of mode of construction and ornamentation of the many fine ancient build-
ings yet remaining in Essex.
Votes of thanks were also passed to the officers, particularly to Mr. Wire, who
was retiring from the Librarianship, and this brought the business of the Annual
Meeting to a close.
An Ordinary Meeting (the 146th) was then held, mainly for the purpose
of election and proposal of new members. Mr. S. Ernest Linder, B.Sc, and Mr.
J. W. Potter were elected members of the Club.
Mr. Oldham exhibited some spring lepidoptera, recently taken in the Forest,
including some very dark specimens of Hybernia leucophearia ; and Mr. W. Cole
exhibited some specimens of the large "oil-beetle," Meloe proscarabaeus, found on
Easter Day (March 25th) on the sea-wall, near the "Bowling Green," at East
Mersea.
Tea and coffee was served at the close of the meeting, as usual.
THE MANAGEMENT OF EPPING FOREST.
Field Meeting in Epping Forest, and 147TH Ordinary Meeting.
Saturday, April 28th, 1894.
It has become a popular and laudable custom for the Club to hold one or more
assemblies on the Forest as the season opens out, the woods never looking
more lovely and attractive than when the leaves are just unfolding, the horn-
beams decorated with the beautiful tassels of flowers, while the hawthorn, broom
and gorse bushes are in full blossom, and the voices of the cuckoo and the night-
ingale are heard in the land.
The meeting on this afternoon was called, not only to view the woods in the
beauty of a wonderful spring-tide, but also to enable members and their friends to see
and judge for themselves the effects of the thinning operations which have
recently been carried on in Monk Woods, Lodge (or Lord's) Bushes, etc., to which
so much public attention had been called by numerous letters in "The Times,"
and other papers. 
The members and friends assembled at Theydon Bois Station about half-past
three o'clock, and the numbers present during the woodland ramble and the even-