THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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Before the business of the meeting began, Mr. Avery called attention
to the recent death of Mr. J. J. Lister, F.R.S., and remarked on the value
of his services to the club at its visit to Cambridge at Easter, 1920. He
proposed that a vote of condolence from the Club should be sent to our
members, the Misses Lister. The President supported the proposal, which
was carried in silence, the members standing.
Miss G. Lister thanked the members for their sympathetic vote.
The following were elected members of the Club, viz. : —
Miss Winifred M. Dunton, of 14, Albert Mansions, Battersea Park,
S.W.11.
Miss E. G. Downes, M.A., of 39, Meath Road, Ilford.
Mr. Henry Cyril S. Halton, of the Essex Museum, Stratford, E.15.
To fill four vacancies upon the Council, due to the retirement in
rotation of Messrs. Daun, Hogg, Main and Mothersole, the following
nominations were made :—
Mr. A. F. Hogg, proposed by Mr. Avery, seconded by Mr. Whitwell.
Mr. S. W. Wooldridge, proposed by Mr. Thorrington, seconded by Mr.
Warren.
Mr. H. Mothersole, proposed by Mr. Paulson, seconded by Mr. Barns.
Mr. Hugh Main, proposed by Mr. Warren, seconded by Mr. Thorrington.
Mr. W. H. Daun, proposed by Mr. Warren, seconded by Mrs. Boyd
Watt.
Mr. G. Dent, proposed by Miss G. Lister, seconded by Mr. Paulson.
Miss E. A. Greaves, proposed by Mrs. Scourfield, seconded by Mrs.
Thompson.
The existing officers of the Club were nominated for re-election, en
bloc, by the Council.
Mr. Campbell proposed, Miss Wyness seconded, the re-election of
Mrs. Whitwell as Second Auditor.
Mr. Paulson nominated the existing members of the Forest Museum
Committee for re-election ; Mr. Main seconded.
Mr. Avery exhibited eleven framed topographical prints of Essex,
comprising views of Colchester, Harwich, Purfleet and Castle Hedingham,
and including the large plate of Audley End by Winstanley. Mr. Avery
offered two of these prints, of which he possessed duplicates, to the Club 3
Pictorial Survey Collection.
Mr. Mothersole exhibited and presented to the Stratford Museum
an example of a stone Paint Muller, with a photograph illustrating the
method of using it.
Mr. Nicholson exhibited a specimen of the Gulf Weed (Sargassum
bacciferum Turn.) with adherent hydrozoans Clytia noliformis Mc Crady,
just received from the South Atlantic.
The Curator exhibited a Gadwall, shot recently on the Blyth Sands,
off Hole Haven, in the Thames Estuary, and sent to the Museum as a
skin ; the specimen had been set up in the Museum.
He also showed a Dunlin, shot circa 1880 at the Bromley Gasworks
in West Ham parish, in the Lea Valley, which had just been presented
to the Club's Museum.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a collection of 67 wild plants from
Algeria, made by Dr. Turner in April, 1926 ; the specimens had been