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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
THE TWO HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH
ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, March 22nd, 1902.
Previous to the Annual Meeting an Ordinary Meeting was held, the
President in the chair, for the purpose of proposing some candidates for
membership, &c.
Mr. Reader exhibited and explained some models of the mode of hafting
Flint Implements which he had had prepared for the Museum, and also
exhibited two burnishers from Clerkenwell, to show that the use of Stone
Implements still obtained in some trades. A description of these models will
form the subject of a future "Museum Note."
He also exhibited photographs of a prehistoric mine in Chili, and a model
of the mode of hafting blocks of limestone in that mine so as to be serviceable
as hammers.
Remarks were made by Professor Boulger and Mr. D. Howard on the
chemical composition of prehistoric bronze implements.
Thanks were voted to Mr. Reader for his interesting exhibitions. The
Annual Meeting followed.
THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING.
Saturday, March 22nd, 1902.
The 22nd Annual Meeting was then held, Prof. Meldola, F.R.S., President,
in the chair.
The minutes of the Annual Meeting, held on March 30th 1901, and printed
in the Essex Naturalist, vol. xii., pp. 48-49, were read and confirmed.
The Treasurer, Mr. David Howard, F.C.S., read the summary of the
Treasurer's statement of Account for 1901 which had been duly signed by the
Auditors, Messrs. Walter Crouch and J. D. Cooper. This statement was
received and adopted by the meeting.
The Secretary read the Annual Report of the Council for the year 1901
This was received and adopted.
At the Meeting on February 22nd last, the following members retired
from the Council by the Rules:—Messrs. J. Avery, L. Cranmer-Byng, A. J.
Furbank, G. E. Vaughan, and the Rev. R. E. Bartlett ; Messrs. Avery and
Vaughan submitting themselves for re-election. There are also two vacancies
remaining over from former years.
At the same meeting the following were duly proposed ;—Mr. J. Avery,
Mr. Percy Clark, B.A., Mr. Primrose McConnell, B.Sc, F.G.S., Mr. Hugh
H. Mason, F.R.C.S., L.S.A, C.C, Mr. G. E. Vaughan, and Mr. C. B.
Russell, M.A., J.P., C.C, has since been nominated.
As Officers the following were nominated :—
President—Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., F.C.S., F.E.S. ; Treasurer—Mr. David
Howard, J.P., F.C.S.; Hon. Secretaries—Mr. W. Cole, F.LS.. F.E.S., and
Mr. B. G. Cole; Librarians—vacant; Auditors—Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S,
and Mr. J. D. Cooper.