26 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
economies will be effected during 1895, but with two museums to maintain and
an annual volume of The Essex Naturalist to produce, much cannot be
expected in the direction of a reduction of expenditure. A more regular and
punctual payment of subscriptions would do much to increase the club's efficiency,
and the Council earnestly appeals to those members, who are in fault, to discharge
their obligations with greater promptitude henceforward.
Meetings in 1894.—It is pleasanter to refer to the success of the ten meetings
of last year. The Annual Meeting was held on March 31st, at which Mr. Chan-
cellor delivered a valuable address upon the development of architecture in Essex,
which has been printed in full in The Essex Naturalist. At a meeting at
Walthamstow on February 3rd, Professor Meldola gave a lecture upon the
scientific applications of photography, a full abstract of which has been published
in our journal, and which attracted considerable notice in the photographic press.
The meeting for the establishment of the Forest Museum is referred to below.
A most important meeting was that held on April 28th for an inspection of the
forest, but in view of the verbatim reports given in The Essex Naturalist
(Vol. viii., pp. 52-71 and pp. 117-121), it is unnecessary to enlarge upon it.
The meeting on the River Lea on July 14th, at which Major Lamorock Flower
gave most valuable services, and that in the Navestock district, when the Rev.
Coode Hore and Prof. Meldola most kindly and efficiently conducted, may be
mentioned as two of the most successful meetings ever held by the Club. At the
latter assembly the members were most hospitably entertained at luncheon at
Dudbrook by Mr. and Mrs. Seller, and at the very pleasant meeting in the
Colchester district on June 23rd, the party had the pleasure of being received by
Mr. James Round, M.P., at his beautiful seat at Birch.
The other meetings are, or will be, reported in The Essex Naturalist, and
in connection with them, in addition to the above acknowledgments, the Council
has pleasure in cordially thanking those gentlemen who gave aid in various ways
as "Conductors" or "Referees" at the Field Meetings, whose valuable services
are duly recorded in the above-mentioned reports.
Memoirs Read and Published.—The papers read at the meetings, many
of which have already been published, have been of a very interesting and
instructive nature, and fully maintain the characteristic features of The Essex
Naturalist as a local journal. As Mr. Batters is not a member of the Club
special thanks are due to him for the trouble and skill given to the examination
of the Hope collection of Essex Marine Algae, and the important paper founded on
this collection, which was printed in the E.N., vol. viii., pp. 1-25. The Council
has to thank our colleague, Mr. J. C. Shenstone, for generously presenting the
greater number of the blocks illustrating his paper on the oak tree in Essex, and
they have also again to thank Mr. II. A. Cole for his gratuitous artistic services
in illustrating our programmes and journal with many pictures of local interest.
The parts of The Essex Naturalist published in the year comprised (with
index to vol. vii.) 248 pages, with many illustrations. The Editor is fully
sensible of the necessity of more regular publication, but with the numerous Club
matters which engage his attention it is easier to promise reform than to compass
it. No member of the Club can be more anxious for the success of the journal,
and as opportunity offers every effort will be made to keep the issues more
regular in dates of appearance.
Technical Instruction. — The members of the Club co-opted to the
Technical Instruction Committee by the Essex County Council, on the nomina-