130 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Pictorial Survey, a water-colour sketch of Church Lane, Leytonstone,
taken from a pen-and-ink drawing by her father in 1865.
Mr. Glegg showed some charming lantern photographs of the Great
Skua and its nest, taken in the Shetlands by himself.
Miss Hibbert-Ware exhibited and described two Sharp-nosed Pipe-
fish from the Essex coast, the male carrying the ova in its abdominal fold ;
and some preserved ova and young of Trout.
Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a living beetle, Drilus flavescens, an apterous
female, and gave a resume of its life-history ; also three lantern-photo-
graphs of the seed-vessels of the Squirting Cucumber : also a photograph
of the "pear" or food-mass formed by the Sacred Beetle, Scarabaeus sacer.
Mr. Warren exhibited lantern-photographs of the remarkable mounds
or banks at Highbeach in Epping Forest, which he thinks may be of pre-
historic date, also various rough pottery fragments, flint flakes, and a
neolithic celt, which had been thrown out of these banks by rabbits during
burrowing.
Mr. Nicholson showed a lantern-slide of a painting called "Eventide,"
which illustrated common artistic errors in depicting the moon and other
natural objects.
Mr. Paulson exhibited some interesting lantern-photographs which
illustrated "What takes place in the teasel-cup" ; the usual pyriform
glands were seen to have at their free ends curious spheroidal masses of
protoplasm with thread-like extensions, capable of slight vibratile move-
ment and elongation, which are believed to absorb nitrogenous matter
from the decaying organic material in the water contained within the cup :
some regard these protoplasmic masses as distinct organisms (rhizopods).
At 5 o'clock the meeting was declared at an end.
ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL.
Presented to the Annual Meeting, March 28th, 1925.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
During the past year the work of the Club has been maintained with
undiminished activity ; 15 meetings have been held, and the attendance
of members has been uniformly good, averaging 45 for each meeting ; this
average is independent of the annual Fungus Foray, to which members
of allied Societies are invited, and at which, last autumn, about 130 persons
were present.
We have to deplore the loss, by death, of four of our honorary members,
viz., Mr. James Britten, Dr. Horace T. Brown, Sir Archibald Geikie, and
Mr. William Whitaker ; and also of two of our older members, Mr. F.
Fountain and Sir Francis Gould, the latter an Original Member dating
from the foundation of the Club in 1880. Seventeen new members
joined during the year, and the present membership stands at 275. The
attention of Members was called, in the Council's Report of last year, to