THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 255
SPECIAL MEETING AND 176th ORDINARY
MEETING.
Saturday, February 26th, 1898.
A Special Meeting and the 176TH Ordinary Meeting were held
in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association, West Ham
Lane, Stratford, at 5.30 p.m., Mr. David Howard, F.I.C, &c., President, in
the chair.
The President said that the business of the Special Meeting was to
propose for the acceptance of the members the following alterations in the
Rules, which the Council had agreed should be brought to the vote :—
"That, having in view the geographical distribution of the railway
system of the County of Essex, and the disadvantages with regard to
meetings held off the main line under which, perhaps, one-fourth of the
Members of the Essex Field Club are placed, the Council recommend the
omission in Rule XVI. of the words ' but no official (Ordinary) meetings at
which minutes of former meetings are read and confirmed (other than meet-
ings of Council and Committee specially appointed by the Council) shall be
held outside the boundaries of the County of Essex ' ; and in Rule XXXVII,,
line 3, of the words ' held in the County of Essex.' "
The President explained it was not anticipated that necessity would
often arise for calling a meeting out of Essex, but such might occur, as it
was difficult to fix upon any place in Essex which was as convenient to all
members as London. It was important that the Council should have the
power of calling any very important meeting at a place where the majority
of the members would attend. He, therefore, moved on behalf of the Council
that the Rules should be altered as above set forth.
Mr. Cecil Schwartz seconded the proposal, which was carried unanimously.
This concluded the business of the Special Meeting.
The 176TH Ordinary Meeting was then held.
The following were elected members of the Club :—Mr. Arthur Boake,
F.C.S., Miss M. Blanche Cuthbertson, and Miss Kate Kimble.
Nominations of new members of Council and Officers were made in
accordance with the Rules, in anticipation of the Annual Meeting to be held
on March 26th (see Report of Annual Meeting). No other nominations
were made.
The Secretary read on behalf of the authors, a short paper entitled
"Notes on a M.S. of the late John Brown, F.G.S., of Stanway," By
Messrs. A. S. Kennard, and B. B. Woodward, F.L.S., F.G.S. This paper
will appear in the Essex Naturalist.
Remarks on the paper were made by the President and Mr. W. Cole
and a vote of thanks was passed to the authors.
Mr. J. Avery said that in one of the county papers there was a para-
graph to the effect that a rare Essex map by Col. Mudge had been hung
in the Shire Hall. He asked if anyone could tell him whether the map
alluded to was the one published in 1826 by Mr. Greenwood. He was under
the impression that Greenwood's map was surveyed by Mudge.