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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
The Epping Forest Museum.—Referring to the lengthy statement in the
last Annual Report, the Council regret that scarcely any progress has yet been
made by the Epping Forest Committee of the Corporation of London with
regard to the repair of Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, and the allotment of further
space for the purposes of the Museum. Several meetings of the Committee
have been held, but nothing has yet been settled. It would be useless
adding more at the present stage. The Council sincerely hope that before the
next Annual Meeting a satisfactory arrangement may be arrived at.1 The
Museum under the care of the Hon. Curator, continues to be largely attended,
and very many of the visitors take great interest in it. A number of Schools
and Natural History Clubs have visited it during the year, and on some of
these occasions the Curator has attended to give a short exposition of por-
tions of the contents.
A full report on the state of the Museum, and the plans for its extension
and improvement, is reserved for a paper to be read by the Curator at a future
meeting.
President.—The Council have much pleasure in again proposing Mr.
Howard for re-election as President, in the hope that during his coming term of
office he may take part in the opening of the New Museum and Head Quarters
of the Club, the acquisition of which he has done so much to promote,
1 We are very glad to state that, at a meeting of the Common Council of tho City of London
held at the Guildhall, on April 27th, a report from the Epping Forest Committee recommending
the repairs of the Queen Elizabeth's Lodge and the re-conversion ot the rooms on the first floor
into one large room, was received and adopted, and a sum of £500 was voted towards the
expense of such repairs. This matter is set out more fully on another page in the present part
of the E.N. Editor.
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
THE 184TH ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, January 28th, 1899.
THE 184th Ordinary Meeting was held in the Physical Theatre of the
Municipal Technical Institute, Romford Road, Stratford, at 6.30 p.m.
Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair.
Mr. F. V. Reader was elected a member of the Club.
Mr. Cecil Schwartz exhibited several specimens under the microscope
and preserved in fluid. Among them were Coccidium oviforme, a Gregarine from
the liver of a rabbit, the specimen showing the process of transformation into
egg-shaped zoösperms by the formation of a capsule and the production of
several spheres from its granular contents.
Also Sagitta cephaloptera. one of the Chaetognatha group of the Nematoda,
from surface-net gatherings in the Crouch River, Essex. One of the three
specimens shown contained a very large Nematode nearly half the size of the
Sagitta.
Also young (Zoae) larvae of Crustacea from surface-net gatherings, Crouch
River,