THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
AND 186TH ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, March 25TH, 1899,
The 19th Annual Meeting was held in the Physical Lecture Theatre in
the Municipal Technical Institute, Romford Road, Stratford, at 6.30 p.m.,
the President, Mr. David Howard, F.C.S., in the chair.
The minutes of the 18th Annual Meeting held on March 26th, 1898,
and printed in the Essex Naturalist, vol. x., pp. 256-258, were read and
confirmed.
The Treasurer, Mr. W. C. Waller, read a summary of the Treasurer's
Statement of Accounts for 1898. It was announced that the Council had
decided to leave the form of the balance sheet to be decided upon by a small
Committee, and the meeting agreed to this, and that the revised statement
should be printed in the Essex Naturalist.
The Report ot the Council for the year 1898 was read by the Secretary
(see pp. 18-24).
The Statement and Report were received and adopted.
At the meeting on February 25th, 1899, it was announced that the follow-
ing members retired from the Council in accordance with the Rules:—Mr.
C. E. Benham ; Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. ; Mr. E. Durrant (on vacating
office as Librarian) ; Mr. F. W. Elliott, and Mr. Chalkley Gould.
And at the same meeting the above-named members were duly proposed
for Election into the Council.
Mr. Alfred Lockyer on being nominated as one of the librarians, also
vacated his seat on the Council, his place being taken, as above indicated, by
Mr. E. Durrant.
As Officers for 1899 the following were nominated :—
As President, Mr. David Howard, J.P., F.C.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. W. C
Waller, M.A., F S.A. ; Hon. Secretary and Curator, Mr. W. Cole, F.L.S.,
F.E.S.; Assistant-Hon. Secretary, Mr. B. G. Cole; Librarians, Mr. Alfred
Lockyer and Mr. W. C. Waller, M.A., F.S.A. ; Hon. Counsel, Mr. W. C. Dare,
B.A., Barrister-at-Law ; Hon. Solicitor, Mr. H. I. Coburn.
As Auditor (for Council), Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S.; (for Members), Mr.
J. D. Cooper.
No other members having been proposed, the above gentlemen stood
elected by Rule VII. as members of the Council and Officers for the year
1899 and were so declared by the Chairman.
[The following therefore constitute the Officers and Council for 1899 :—
Patron.—H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G.
President.—David Howard, J.P., F.C.S., F.I.C.
Permanent Vice-Presidents.—(Under Rule IV.)—Prof. R. Meldola,
F.R.S., F.R.A.S., &c., (President 1880-82) ; Prof. G. S. Boulger, F.L.S.,
F.G.S. (President 1883-84) ; T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., M.A.I, (President
1885-87) ; E. A. Fitch, F.L.S., F.E.S. (President, 1888-91) ; Dr. Henry Laver,
F.L.S., F.S.A. (President 1892) ; Frederic Chancellor, J.P., F.R.I.B.A.
(President 1893-94).