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REPORT OF THE COUNCIL
Presented to the Annual Meeting, March 19th, 1932.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Council reports with great satisfaction that the normal
activities of the Club have continued unabated during the past
year, and that the interest of members in our meetings has been
well maintained.
Fourteen meetings in all have been held, with satisfactory
attendances ; we have gratefully to acknowledge hospitality
extended by Lord Noel-Buxton, the Rev. A. R. Thurlow and
Mrs. Thurlow, and the Rev. R. Bren and Mrs. Bren to visiting
parties of members on our various outdoor meetings.
Thanks are also due to Mrs. Hatley, Miss Lister, Mr. Harley,
Mr. Salmon, Mr. Lambert and Mr. Crouch for organising and
conducting field meetings in various parts of the county.
The Club had the pleasure of inviting a party of members of
the Geologists' Association to inspect the Stratford Museum in
January last, when our guests were received by the President
and were entertained to tea by the Club.
Stratford Museum. The work of the Club's principal
museum has proceeded steadily throughout the year. The
Pictorial Survey collection has been enriched by various pur-
chases of prints and photographs and now comprises a total of
8,060 mounted items ; in addition, there is a considerable
number as yet unmounted, owing to pressure of work in other
directions : but 450 items have been mounted during the year.
The Library has increased considerably : 59 volumes have
been generously added (by purchase) by the Corporation of
West Ham, 113 volumes have been presented, either by gift or
in exchange, and 87 volumes have been bound during the year,
making a total of 6,280 volumes now in the Library.
To afford a better conception of the wealth of the Library
in scientific journals and so stimulate members to draw more
largely upon the stores of literary matter available for their
use for home borrowing, your Council appends a list of periodicals
in the Library, of which sets are complete to daie from their
commencement, viz. :—
Annals of Scottish Natural History (1892-1911), afterwards continued as
The Scottish Naturalist.
Antiquity.