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interesting address on "Colour in Nature." The Council was also much indebted
to Mr. Charles H. Read, F.S.A.., Keeper of the Department of British and
Mediaeval Antiquities at the British Museum, for the address on "Local
Archaeological Investigation," which he gave at the meeting in January. At the
following meeting, on February 22nd, Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., the
Hope Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford, delighted the audience with a
lecture (most beautifully illustrated by photographs in colour) on " Protective
Resemblance, Warning Colours, and Mimicry," and on this occasion the
Club had the benefit of some remarks on " Mimicry" from Professor Meldola.
At the March meeting Mr. Frank P. Smith spoke of" Spiders and their Ways,"
preparatory to a series of papers he is writing for our journal on the " Spiders of
Epping Forest." The "Fungus Foray" on October 17th and 18th, was like so
many outdoor meetings in 1902, somewhat shorn of the usual goodly company by
more than doubtful weather, but scientifically it was not a whit behind its fore-
runners, inasmuch as no less than 134 species were gathered and determined by
Dr. Cooke and Mr. Massee, of which 18 were new to the Forest Flora. On this
occasion also the Club had the assistance of Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S.
At the meeting on December 6th Mr. Edward R. Turner gave an excellent
demonstration of the Lumiere process of Tri-Colour Photography and its applica-
tion to Natural History work.
At some of the meetings the kind assistance of the following gentlemen,
acting as "Conductors," was highly appreciated: Mr. J. Chalkley Gould, Mr.
Primrose McConnell, Mr. E. N. Buxton, Mr. W. H. Dalton, Mr. T. V. Holmes,
Mr. J. E. Greenhill, Mr. Miller Christy, Rev. C. Boutflower, and Mr. Frank
Smith.
The Council have pleasure in again recording the best thanks of the Club to
the Technical Instruction Committee of the West Ham Corporation, and to the
Principal, Mr. Briscoe, for the use of the meeting-room and for other facilities.
The Essex Naturalist.—With the view of securing more regularity in
the publication of our journal the Council have accepted the estimate of Messrs.
Benham and Co., of Colchester, for the printing. It is confidently anticipated
that with the new year, the parts will appear quarterly, viz., on or about the
20th of April, July, October, and January, in each year. The price of the parts
to non-members will in future be uniformly 5s., so that the best way to obtain the
Essex Naturalist will be to join the Club. Two parts comprising 216 pages
with several plates, and Title and Index to Vol. XL, were published in the year.
The Council asks for the aid of the members and friends of the Club to the Editor
so that he may be enabled to produce the journal as a regular quarterly
publication. It is manifest that he is entirely in the hands of contributors so far
as regards original papers ; a supply of Notes and Short Papers likely to interest
zoologists, botanists, geologists, and students of pre-historic archaeology, etc., in
the Eastern Counties, and the East and North of London, would be of the
greatest value in connection with the journal and would markedly tend to increase
the interest of members in the work of the Club.
Essex Museum of Natural History.—The central museum has
benefited by several donations within the year, the most remarkable having been
the gift by our member, Mr. T. Horace Brown, F.R.S., of the whole of his
extensive and valuable collection of fossils and rock specimens, together with a
small type collection of mollusca. This donation was made by Mr. Brown and
gratefully accepted by the Council to aid in the building up of the educational