JUBILEE COMMEMORATION MEETING.
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gave the signal for closing an enjoyable and most successful
function.
During the morning, a telegram was sent to H.R.H. the
Duke of Connaught, the Club's patron, as under:—
"On occasion of Celebration of Essex Field Club's Jubilee,
"I send respectful greetings to your Royal Highness, our Patron.
"President."
A reply was received (unfortunately, too late to be read at
the Commemoration Meeting), from the Duke (at St. Jean,
Cap Ferrat, on the Riviera), addressed to the President, and
couched as follows:—
"Grateful thanks [for] greeting on Jubilee of Club."
It is fitting that due thanks should be expressed to the many
helpers who, in one way or another, contributed to the success
of the Meeting: to the Chairman of the Higher Education Com-
mittee of the West Ham Corporation for the use of the Great
Hall and generally of the College building, to Miss Maud Foster
for her excellent organisation of the Tea Department, to Mr.
W. Bridger for providing special temporary electric lighting for
the Platform and for the exhibition tables, to Dr. Baillie and
Miss Greaves for their indispensible help and advice, and to our
President and other members of the Club for active assistance
in the many preparations for the meeting.
Full Reports of the Commemoration Meeting appeared in all
the County newspapers and in the local press, and good notices
were given in the "Times" and in "Nature."
Viking Pottery at Barkingside. In 1925 two of our members, Mr.
S. Hazzledine Warren and Mr. W. H. Ryde, found some pieces of a hand-
made pottery Bowl, about 8 inches in diameter, in excavations in the
Stone Hall gravel-pit at Barkingside. The fragments which presented
some unusual features, were donated by the finders to the British Museum
and have since been fitted together by the authorities there. In "Man"
for June, 1930, Mr. T. D. Kendrick, of the Museum, gives an illustrated
account of the bowl and regards it as being probably of Danish origin
dating from the ninth or tenth century of our era.—Editor.