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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
ORDINARY MEETING (639TH MEETING) and
ANNUAL MEETING (640TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 31ST MARCH, 1928.
These meetings were held in the Physics Lecture Theatre of the
Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford, on the afternoon of the
above date, the President, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, I.S.O., F.L.S., etc., being
in the chair. 55 members and visitors were present.
Mr. Avery exhibited 24 prints of Essex churches and other buildings
from his private collection.
Miss I. Lister read some personal reminiscences of, and exhibited
photographs of, directors and others associated with early Essex banks
which were later absorbed into Barclays Bank, Ld.
Miss G. Lister exhibited and presented to the Stratford Museum a
nestling Heron from the Wanstead Park heronry.
Mr. J. Mackworth Wood exhibited and presented to the museum a
well set-up Tawny Owl from Terling.
The hon. secretary exhibited a further series of Swiss flowering plants,
collected by Dr. F. M. Turner in the Arolla district last July and presented
by him to the Club's collection : the specimens had since been named by
Miss G. Lister and mounted for the herbarium by Miss Prince.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a male Stoat, shot at Felsted, which had
been sent up in the flesh to the museum by Mr. J. H. Owen, and prepared
there for exhibition.
Thanks were accorded to the several donors and exhibitors.
The business of the annual meeting was then proceeded with. The
minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed.
The report of the Council for 1927 was read by the hon. secretary.
On the motion of Mr. Ross, seconded by Mr. Harley, the report was
received and adopted.
The hon. treasurer presented his Statement of Accounts for 1927,
and formally moved its adoption ; Mr. Ryde seconded. The motion
was carried non. con.
The thanks of the meeting were voted to Mr. Avery for his careful
management of the Club's finances.
The hon. secretary announced that no further nomination having
been received or objection raised, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, I.S.O., F.L.S.,
F.Z.S., F.R.M.S., stood re-elected as President of the Club for a third year
of office. The announcement was greeted with applause, and the president
thanked the members for their warm reception.
The hon. secretary reported that, at the meeting held on 25th February,
seven nominations had been made to fill six vacancies on the Council;
since that date a further vacancy had been caused by the lamented death
of Mr. Gerald Buxton. The necessity for a ballot being no longer existent
the president declared that the seven members nominated, viz., Mr. W.
Gurney Benham, Mr. C. Hall Crouch, Mr. L. S. Harley, Mr. A. F. Hogg,
Miss E. Prince, Dr. F. M. Turner and Mr. J. Mackworth Wood, had been
duly elected Members of Council.
The undermentioned persons having been duly nominated at the
meeting held on February 25th, and no further nominations having been