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Your Council also wishes to express its thanks to Miss Dofort, Miss
Forgan and other lady members, for their voluntary work in renewing
or restoring some of the exhibits at the Forest Museum ; to Miss Lister
and Miss Prince for their continued help in connection with the Stratford
herbarium : and to Mr. Barns for regularly writing reports of our meetings
in the County press.
Many gifts have been made by members and other friends to the Club's
collections. Mr. G. J. B. Fox has added to his generous gifts of prehistoric
implements, and the Stratford Museum can now boast of a remarkably
large collection of stone-age relics.
The Library now comprises 5650 bound volumes, 73 of these having
been bound during the year : in addition it includes a very large number
of pamphlets, &c., of which 68 have been added during the past twelve
months.
The Pictorial Survey collection has made remarkable progress, owing
to generous gifts of prints and the loan of negatives from the Borough
Engineer of West Ham, from Mr. Harley, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Barns and
Mrs. Hatley : in all, over 600 photographic prints have been added to
the Survey collection during the period named, although these have not
yet all been mounted.
Two parts of the Essex Naturalist have been issued at regular
intervals.
In January last, your Council issued a Booklet, descriptive of the
aims of the Club and giving particulars of membership, and copies were
distribute d to all members with a request to bring them to the notice of
persons likely to be interested in the Club. Additional copies of this
Booklet may be obtained from the Honorary Secretary, and members
are urged to do their utmost to introduce new recruits to our ranks.
In conclusion, the Council desires to thank all who have, whether
by gift, loan, or personal service, contributed to the well-being of the
Club and of its Museums.
A BOOK OF ESSEX BIRDS.
A History of the Birds of Essex, by William E. Glegg, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U.,
1929. H. F. and G. Witherby. 25s. net.
Nearly forty years have elapsed since the publication of Christy's
Birds of Essex (1890), and the time was certainly ripe for the appearance
of a new and authoritative work on the subject. Mr. Glegg's peculiar
fitness for the task is patent to all who know him, and the book which
has resulted from his intensive study is sufficient justification for the
confidence felt that this author would handle the subject worthily and
well. It is a gratifying circumstance that Mr. Glegg, like his predecessor
in this branch of literary effort, the late Miller Christy, is intimately
associated with the Essex Field Club, which can indeed claim, as he admits
in his Preface, to have inspired him with the idea of writing the volume.
Readers of the Essex Naturalist will be familiar with the five
interesting articles in which Mr. Glegg has treated the birds of our Essex