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Lectures arranged by the Club, of a semi-popular nature, such as
that on "Insect-transformations" by Mr. Enock and that on
"Surface Tension" by Messrs. Starling and Scourfield, if thrown
open to a large section of the public, would serve both as a
means of popularising knowledge, and of attracting new members
to the Club.
I now turn to the work of the Club in the furthering of
Science by adding to the stock of human knowledge. It is
gratifying to record an uninterrupted flow of scientific papers ;
indeed, to cope with the supply, an additional meeting of the
Club was held this session. Not only has the output been great
in volume, but in standard many of the papers would do credit
to the learned Societies.
First must be recalled the survey and renewal of the Boundary
Stones of the Ancient Forest of Waltham. The work was
initiated by Professor Meldola at the Annual Meeting three
years ago, carried out for the Club by Professor Coker and Mr.
Savidge with a grant made by the Essex County Council for
the purpose, and completed by a perambulation of the Stones
on 31st July in the following year (1909).
The Club has to congratulate itself on being the recipient of a
series of valuable contributions to our knowledge of prehistoric
man, as revealed by a prehistoric interment and Neolithic floors,
by Mr. Hazzledine Warren and Mr. Francis Reader. Messrs.
Whitehead and Goodchild have contributed to our knowledge of
the botany of perhaps the same period by their investigations
on Moorlog, and their results may form an important standard
of comparison when the botanical composition of peaty deposits
on our own coasts comes to be undertaken. Among many other
papers, I hope that by Mr. Dent and myself on the "Reafforesta-
tion of Hainhault" may not be without use to the future workers
in that region, as a record forming a starting point, as it were,
from which "Nature in the making" can be observed.
The field meetings have greatly benefited by the appoint-
ment, on Mr. Cole's suggestion, of an Excursions Secretary, and
Mr. Percy Thompson filled the post with such success that the
number of field meetings held last year was just double that
during either of the two previous seasons. Most important
of these from the scientific point of view were the various dredging