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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Miss J. Curie, B.Sc, of Beulah Road, Walthamstow, E.17, and Mr.
Edward North Buxton, of 2, Hyde Park Square, W.2., were elected
members.
The Hon. Secretary gave notice, on behalf of the Council, that the
following recommendation would be made to the annual meeting :—
" The Council recommends to the Annual Meeting that, in view
" of the unduly large and increasing size of the Council in proportion
" to the total number of members, any vacancies thereon, over and
" above those caused by the retirement of members in rotation, shall
" remain unfilled for the present."
The Hon. Secretary reported that five members of Council would
retire in rotation at the Annual Meeting, viz. :—Mrs. J. E. Scourfield
(who did not offer herself for re-election), Mrs. W. Boyd Watt, Mr. J. C.
Shenstone, Mr. F. W. Thorrington, and Mr. W. E. Glegg. To fill the
vacant seats, nominations were invited and the following were made :—
Mrs. A. R. Hatley, proposed by Mr. Thorrington, seconded by Mr.
Paulson.
Mr. W. E. Glegg, proposed by Mr. Avery, seconded by Mr. Mothersole.
Mr. F. W. Thorrington, proposed by Mr. Barns, seconded by Mr.
Crouch.
Mrs. W. Boyd Watt, proposed by Miss G. Lister, seconded by Mr.
Daun.
Miss A. Dofort, proposed by Miss Prince, seconded by Miss Wyness.
Mr. J. C. Shenstone, proposed by Mr. Paulson, seconded by Mr. Avery.
The Council nominated the whole of the existing officers of the Club
for re-election to their respective offices, and also nominated the members
of the Forest Museum Committee for re-election.
Mr. Glegg, for Miss Hibbert-Ware, exhibited a Knot, in winter plumage
from the Blackwater.
Mr. Mothersole exhibited a book-collection of Mosses, made in 1846
by Miss Alicia Barker, of Chelmsford, many of the specimens having
been found in that neighbourhood.
The Curator exhibited a selection of thirty photographs of old-time
street views in Stratford, these being portion of some seventy-one copies,
made in the Museum, of official photographs loaned for the purpose by the
Borough Engineer.
Mr. Thompson also showed specimens of agatized coniferous wood
from Arizona, U.S.A., which had recently been presented to the Museum.
He also exhibited a living River Crab from Algiers, which had been
in the Museum tanks since May, 1926, and which, during the late Arctic
weather, had been for two whole days frozen solidly into the ice formed
on the bottom of its tank, and yet had recovered from its ordeal.
Thanks were voted to the donors and exhibitors.
In the absence of Mr. Hugh Main through illness, the Hon. Secretary
read his account of "The Metamorphoses of the Cellar Beetle, Blaps
mucronata," which was illustrated by lantern photographs and by a
mounted specimen of the beetle. Thanks were passed to Mr. Main
for his communication.
The President then called upon Mr. H. C. S. Halton, who read "An
Account of Priapulus caudatus, a rare Essex Gephyrean," which he illus-