250 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
Prof. G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Zoology, Royal
College of Science.
Prof. E. Ray Lankester, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c„ Director of
the British Museum of Natural History.
C. H. Read, Esq., F.S.A., Keeper of the British and Medieval Antiquities
British Museum.
Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c.,
Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew.
Prof. H. Marshall Ward, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany,
University of Cambridge.
H. B. Woodward, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., Geological Museum, Jermyn
Street.
[N.B.—All the above gentlemen were elected at the Annual Meeting on
March 22nd, 1902.]
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
THE 208th ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, January 25TH, 1902.
The 208th Ordinary Meeting was held at half-past six o'clock in the
Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal Technical Institute, Stratford, the
President, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., in the chair.
Mr. Frank Woolnough, Curator of the Museum, Ipswich, was elected a
member of the Club.
At the commencement of the proceedings, Mr. Cole said that the members
would lament the death of Lord Rookwood, one of the Life Members of the
Club, and a gentleman who had earned the esteem and gratitude of all
interested in the county of Essex. Before he became a peer, as Sir Henry
Selwin-Ibbetson he was largely concerned in the rescue of Epping Forest,
and he piloted the Epping Forest Act through Parliament. Later, he aided
the Club in defeating encroachments on the Forest by railway and tramway
companies. In many movements made for the benefit of the county, Lord
Rookwood took a leading part, and his loss would be long regretted. He died
in London January 15th, 1902 in the 77th year of his age. Mr. Cole concluded
by moving that he should be empowered to send a letter of condolence in the
name of the Club to Lady Rookwood on the death of her distinguished
husband.
This was seconded by the President, who cordially supported the tribute
of esteem put forward, and the resolution was carried unanimously.
Mr. T. V. Holmes, F.G.S, exhibited a drawing of an old wooden water-
pipe, found in making excavations in Wigmore Street, London, and made some
remarks on these disused methods of conveying water. He thought that
ancient contrivances of the kind were worth recording, inasmuch as they were
so soon wholly forgotten.