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to health. This was carried unanimously. The protracted absence of the
President, who had been ordered away for a six months' rest, was also referred
to, and it was announced that Mr. Miller Christy, as a Vice-President of the
Club and Mr. Dymond's predecessor in office, had consented to act as interim
President during Mr. Dymond's absence.
New Member.—The Rev. W. S. Mayor, M.D., &c., of Kelvedon Hatch,
was elected a member of the Club, and five nominations were made.
The Chairman proposed that the hearty thanks of the meeting should be
given to Mr. and Mrs. Seabrooke for their kind hospitality, and also to Mr.
Curry, the Secretary of the Grays Chalk Quarries Co., who had obtained per-
mission from his Board of Directors for the party to visit the pits. Both propos-
itions were carried by acclamation. Mrs. Seabrooke suitably replied, and the
meeting closed.
The company later spent some time in rambling through the beautiful
grounds of "The Elms," under the personal conduct of our kind host and
hostess, from whom we had difficulty in tearing ourselves away in time to catch
the 7.22 p.m. train back to London.
VISIT TO HATFIELD PEVEREL AND LITTLE BADDOW
AND 282nd ORDINARY MEETING.
Saturday, 28TH May 1910.
The party assembled at Hatfield Peverel Station shortly after ten o'clock,
and at once proceeded to an inspection of the Refrigerating Station in con-
nection with Lord Rayleigh's dairy farms, by kind permission of his lordship.
The processes of alternately heating the milk, as received from the farms, to
160° Fahr, in the steriliser, and finally cooling down to 45° Fahr., was actually
demonstrated to the visitors. The members were also enabled to satisfy them-
selves of the delicious coolness of the milk after passing over the brine-cooler.
Lord Rayleigh and the Hon. Edward Strutt hospitably provided refreshments,
which, on a warm day and following an early morning journey, were much
appreciated. A formal vote of thanks to Lord Rayleigh and Mr. Strutt was
passed by those present, and Mr. Jones, the manager, who had conducted and
explained the demonstration, was requested to convey same to the proper
quarter.
Leaving the Dairy, the party commenced a long country ramble. The
"Conductors" were Mr. A. E. Briscoe, B.Sc., Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S.,
Mr. C. Nicholson, and Mr. J. C. Shenstone, F.L.S. This excursion was made
in most enjoyable weather and under sunny skies, excepting a brief thunderstorm.
It was a walk into one of Nature's seclusions and was attended by all the brilliant
pageantry of Spring.
Our member, Mr. John French, who was of the party, kindly furnished
some notes of his observations, from which the following extracts are taken : —
"The walk being from Hatfield Peverel due south, a reference to the map will
show that the path crossed first the valley of the Ter and afterwards that of the
Chelmer, the confluence of the two streams being a little further eastward. Few
would think that the zoology of a district could be affected by such a small
stream as the Ter, which is a mere brook for the whole of its course ; yet it
plays its part in the distribution of organisms, and a part different from that
played by the Chelmer, although the two streams are in such close proximity.