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looked upon as belonging to this category. I find also that I
have myself contributed on some occasions to this kind of work.
In yet another direction has the Club been enabled to
assist in the work of education. The Technical Instruction
movement set going under the Acts of 1889 and 1890 led the
Council of the Club to come forward in 1890 with a scheme
which was submitted to the Essex County Council (Essex
Naturalist IV., 259) and supported by a deputation invited to
wait upon the Technical Instruction Committee on Feb. 2nd,
1891 (Ibid. V., 34). The deputation comprised, among others,
our Hon. Members, Sir Henry Roscoe, one of the chief promo-
ters in Parliament of the Acts in question, and Sir William
Flower. The final outcome of our application was the co-opting
of six representatives of the Club as Members of the Technical
Instruction Committee, the gentlemen proposed and accepted
being Sir Henry Roscoe, Mr. G. J. Symons, Mr. F. Chancellor,
Mr. J. C. Shenstone, Mr. John Spiller and myself. The later
history of our connection with technical education in Essex was
related by Mr. Chancellor in his presidential address for 1895
(Ibid. IX., 30), and to this I must refer you for details. It would
not be fitting for me to attempt to weigh our utility or to form
any estimate of our services to our colleagues of the Technical
Instruction Committee. It was extremely difficult for us in the
first stages of the movement to find men with the necessary educa-
tional qualifications and willing to give their time to the very
exacting duties associated with the launch of a scheme so totally
new to the people of this country. Changes in the Club's repre-
sentation have been made from time to time, but of the original
list Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Shenstone, Mr. Spiller and myself still
remain as members of the Committee. If I may for once,
venture upon a personal statement I should like to place upon
record my own sense of obligation to the Technical Instruction
Committee for having given me the opportunity of studying the
practical working of the Acts in Essex during the last decade.
VII.—MUSE UM WORK.
The idea of having a museum associated with the Club has,
as you are aware, been present from the beginning of our exist-
ence. "The formation of a Museum" was contemplated in the
original Rules and its general scope defined in my "Inaugural
Address" (Trans. I., 12—13). The nature of the contents of