THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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The Minutes of the last Annual Meeting having been read and con-
firmed, the Hon. Secretary read the Report of the Council for the past
year ; Mr. Barns moved, and Mr. Thorrington seconded, that the Report
be received and adopted : this was carried unanimously.
The Hon.. Treasurer read his Statement of the Club's Accounts for
1924, and moved formally that the same be accepted : Mr. Batchelor
seconded. On being put to the meeting, the motion was carried nem. con.
Sir Arthur Smith Woodward, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc., was duly re-
elected as President for 1925-6.
At the meeting on 28th February, five persons were nominated for four
vacant seats on the Council : a ballot was accordingly taken, Messrs.
Campbell and Nicholson acting as tellers. As a result of the figures Miss E.
Willmott, Mr. S. J. Barns, Mr. Gerald Buxton and Mr. J. E. Harting were
declared to have been elected Members of the Council.
The existing Officers of the Club, having been duly nominated on 28th
February, and there being no further nominations, were declared by the
Chairman to be re-elected to their respective offices, viz. :—
As Hon. Treasurer, Mr. John Avery, F.C.A. ; as Hon. Librarian,
Mr. F. J. Brand ; as Hon. Secretary and Hon. Editor, Mr. Percy Thompson,
F.L.S. ; as Hon. Assistant Curator at Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, Miss V.
Oxley.
Mr. Nicholson and Mrs. Whitwell were re-elected as Auditors for
1925-26.
The members of the Forest Museum Committee, viz., Miss G. Lister,
Miss A. Hibbert-Ware, Mr. Avery and Mr. Thompson were re-elected for
another year.
Upon the recommendation of the Council, the following persons of
scientific eminence were elected Honorary Members of the Club, viz. :—
Mr. W. T. Caiman, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.Z.S.
Professor J. W. Gregory, D.Sc., F.R.S., F.G.S.
Mr. A. B. Rendle, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., etc.
Mr. Dukinfield H. Scott, M.A., LL.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., etc.
Miss E. L. Turner, F.L.S., F.Z.S.
The Hon. Secretary read, in his absence, an abstract of the Presi-
dent's Address, which was entitled "The Mammals of the Eocene Period,
with Special Reference to Discoveries in the London Clay of Essex."
This closed the business of the Annual Meeting, and the Ordinary
Meeting was resumed.
Mr. Lionel E. Day, of Ivy-dene, Hildaville Drive, Westcliff-on-Sea, was
elected a Member of the Club.
Mr. Avery exhibited 33 topographical prints of Essex from his own
collection.
Miss Lister exhibited a set-up specimen of the Amethyst Glossy
Starling (Lamprocolius purpureus, var. amethystinus), a native of the S.E.
Soudan and Uganda, which had been presented to the Club's Forest Museum
and which was stated, evidently in error, to have been shot on Little Friday
Hill, at Chingford. Miss Lister also exhibited, and presented to the Club's