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Mr. John Spiller, F.C.S., also spoke on the same subject.
The President called attention to the interesting fact that on the 10th of
January next the Club would attain its majority, having been founded on that
day in 1880, and he hoped that the occasion would be marked in some special
way, at any rate during the coming year.
The remainder of the evening was occupied in examining the numerous
specimens displayed on the tables in the room.
OPENING OF THE ESSEX MUSEUM OF NATURAL
HISTORY.
Thursday, October i8th, 1900.
On this afternoon the opening ceremony took place. A full report
appears as a separate article in the present part.
THE 197TH ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, October 27TH, 1900.
This meeting was held in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal
Technical Institute, Romford Road, Stratford, Essex, at half-past six o'clock,
Mr. William Whitaker, F.R.S., F.G.S., in the chair.
[This was the resumption of the meetings in the Institute after the
disastrous fire on October 23rd, 1899. The Council and Officers have
pleasure in acknowledging the continued kindness in this connection of the
Technical Instruction Committee of the Borough of West Ham, and of the
Principal of the Institute, Mr. A. E. Briscoe, B.Sc. The great value and
convenience of such a well-appointed assembly-place in immediate connection
with the Museum and Library was acknowledged by all present. The Head-
quarters and Library were open during the afternoon and evening after many
years interval, since their removal from the old quarters at Buckhurst Hill.]
Mr. F. C. Clarke was elected a member of the Club.
Mr. D.J. Scourfield, F.R.M.S., exhibited an extraordinary mass of the
Statoblasts of Cristatella from a pond in Epping Forest. He also displayed
one of the statoblasts under the microscope. Mr. Scourfield said that
although the statoblasts of Cristalla were fairly common in the forest pools, it
was rarely that a mass such as that shown was found.
Mr. Oldham exhibited a curious sport of the garden Scabrus, in which the
corollas of all the compound flowers had reverted to green leaves.
Mr. J. P. Johnson brought up specimens of the teeth, &c., of some of the
small vertebrate animals and associated Palaeolithic "flakes" from the pits
at Grays Thurrock, mentioned in the paper subsequently read by Messrs.
Hinton and Kennard.