256 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
Mr. Walter Crouch said that Mudge's Map was not so rare as was
supposed, but it was more correct than any of the earlier maps. 1
Mr. W. C. Waller thought that it would be very interesting if a list of
Essex Maps could be produced.
THE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
AND 177th ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, March 26th 1898.
The i8th Annual General Meeting of the Club was held at the Young
Men's Christian Association, Stratford, at 6.30 o'clock, Mr. David Howard,
J.P., F.C.S., President, in the chair.
Previous to the Annual Meeting, an Ordinary Meeting (the 177th) was
held.
Mr. J. E. Harting, F.L.S, (one of the Hon. Members) and Mr. William
Taylor, were elected members of the Club.
County Museum. Mr. Waller, the Hon. Secretary of the Sub-Committee,
reported as follows with respect to the enquiry referred to the Council as a
Committee by the resolution of the Special Meeting on January 22nd last;—
" The Council beg to report that they delegated the enquiry to a sub-
committee, consisting of the Rev. R. E. Bartlett, Mr. T. V Holmes, and
Professor Meldola, with instructions to report to a Council Meeting to be held
not less than ten days prior to the Annual Meeting in March. The Sub-
Committee having found it impossible, from various causes, to comply with
this condition, have applied for and been granted au extension of time. Their
report, however, is understood to be now nearly complete, and a Council
meeting will shortly be summoned to receive and consider it, with a view to
bringing the matter later on before a Special Meeting of the Club."
Mr. Avery exhibited a copy of a rare map of Essex—Saxton's map —
dated 1576, supposed to be the earliest known map of the County.
The 18th Annual General Meeting was then held :—
The minutes of the 17th Annual Meeting held on March 27th, 1897,
and printed in the Essex Naturalist, Vol. X., pp. 13-16, were read and
confirmed.
The Treasurer's Statement of Accounts for 1897, duly signed by the
Auditors Messrs. Walter Crouch, and J. D. Cooper, was read by Mr. Waller,
together with a short report of the same (see pp. 248-9).
The Report of the Council for the year 1897 was read by the Secretary
(see page pp. 246-53).
The Statement and Report were received and adopted.
1 See Mr. Crouch's account of Mudge's Map in "Notes Original and Selected."