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referred to Professor Boulger's long connection with the Club, he being
our second President, serving as long ago as 1883-1884, and our oldest
surviving Vice-President.1
An adjournment for tea at a restaurant close to the Gardens was then
made, and the Party separated, after a very enjoyable afternoon.
ORDINARY MEETING (542nd MEETING).
SATURDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1922.
This meeting was held as usual in the Municipal College, Romford
Road, Stratford, at 3 o'clock on the above date, with the President, Mr.
R. Paulson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., in the chair. 52 members were present.
Mr. A. W. Mera, of 5, Park Villas, High Road, Loughton, was elected
a member of the Club.
The President referred to the recent election to the Presidency of the
Quekett Microscopical Club of one of our members, Mr. D. J. Scourfield,
and offered his congratulations to him for the warm reception he had re-
ceived on that occasion. Mr. Scourfield thanked the President and the
members present for their kind congratulations.
In anticipation of the approaching annual meeting, nominations were
made for new members of Council and Officers for the ensuing year.
Notice was given by the Hon. Secretary, on behalf of the Council, of
certain proposed alterations in the Rules to be proposed to the Annual
Meeting.
Mr. J. Avery exhibited a special series of Essex prints, comprising some
fifty etchings and drawings executed during the years 1817 to 1823 by an
anonymous artist, under the initials "M.S." Some of the prints are well
known to Essex collectors, but in consequence of others not being named
they have escaped notice in the past. They have now been identified
and the exhibit was probably the most complete collection relating to
Essex by this unknown artist.
The Curator exhibited a set-up Herring Gull and a Dunlin (skin), both
from Low Street, Tilbury, which had been presented (in the flesh) to
the Club's Museum.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a Little Grebe from Felsted, which had
been found by our member, Mr. J. H. Owen, in the river there, floating
dead, with a Bull-head firmly fixed in its throat. This interesting speci-
men had been presented to the Club's Museum by Mr. Owen, and had
been set-up in the Museum with a cast of the fish in its jaws, exactly as
found.
Mr. E. T. Newton exhibited, and presented to the Museum, the leg-
bones of a small Deer, articulated for exhibition.
Thanks were passed to the donors and exhibitors.
The Hon. Secretary (in the author's absence) read, in abstract, a paper
by Mr. H. Whitehead, B.Sc., on "The British Fresh-water Planarians
(Tricladida)" (printed in full, ante, p. 1).
1 The unexpected announcement of the death of Professor Boulger on May 4th, at the age
of 69, came as a great shock to those who, although they had known him for so many years, had
always thought of him as a vigorous man still in the prime of life. The President represented
the Club at the funeral of our lamented Past President at Richmond, on May 9th.
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