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Sherrin showed a series of excellent lantern-slides of various plants,
both flowering and flowerless, which excited the admiration of the
audience.
At shortly before 6 o'clock, leaves were taken, after a very pleasant
and instructive visit.
ORDINARY MEETING (620TH MEETING).
Saturday, 29th January. 1927.
This, the third meeting of the Winter Session, was held in the Physics
Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford,
with the President, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, I.S.O., F.L.S., etc., in the chair.
70 members and visitors were present.
The following were elected members of the Club, viz. :—
Miss M. E. L. Hitchmough, of 12, Fulready Road, Leyton, E.10.
Mrs. Beatrice Kay, of 7, Victoria Road, Chingford, E.4.
The Honorary Secretary read a communication from the British
Association, asking for the co-operation of local Societies in recording
temporary geological sections, well-borings and the like ; and urged that
individual members should send him such particulars for transmission
to the proper quarter.
Mr. Barns presented to the Library a copy of "The Church Plate
of Essex."
Mr. Avery exhibited a series of etchings of Essex topographical views,
a portrait of Edward Doubleday, and a priced copy of the sale-catalogue
of Henry Doubleday's Sale in 1871.
Mrs. Hatley exhibited, and presented to the Club's Pictorial Survey
of the County, some original pen-and-ink sketches of Eastbury House,
Barking.
The Curator exhibited a specimen of the Little Auk, which had been
shot near Manningtree and presented to the Museum by Mr. W. B.
Nichols, J.P.
He also exhibited fifteen cases of Birds, chiefly Owls, ten of which
could be identified as coming from Henry Doubleday's Collection, and
all of which had been presented to the Stratford Museum by the Misses
Seebohm, of Hitchin, through the good offices of Miss G. Lister.
Dr. F. M. Turner read an account of his experiments "On the Effect
of Overcrowding on the Growth of Limnaea pereger and L. stagnalis,"
which he illustrated by lantern-diagrams and by the exhibition of the
snails themselves. Following this paper, Mrs. Hatley contributed some
notes of her own experiments in the same direction.
Miss E. L. Turner, F.L.S., was to have given a lecture on "Bird
Watching on Scolt Head," but was unfortunately ill with influenza.
Instead, Mr. W. E. Glegg kindly lectured on a cognate subject, entitled
"A Visit to the Camargue," illustrating his remarks by a large number
of fine lantern photographs taken by himself.
VISIT TO THE BRYANT AND MAY MUSEUM (621ST
MEETING.)
SATURDAY, I2TH FEBRUARY, 1927.
The important new addition to the museums of London, known
as the "Bryant and May Museum of Fire-Making Appliances," has been