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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
Room. The gardens and aquarium were specially illuminated
and the visit was much enjoyed. On the final day there was
an excursion for Delegates from overseas to Lord Rothschild's
Museum at Tring, and the programme terminated with a reception
given by His Majesty's Government to Delegates and Fellows
of the Society.
In the course of the proceedings it was announced that His
Majesty the King had been graciously pleased to confer on the
Society the title of the "Royal Entomological Society of
London."
The Essex Field Club was represented at the Celebrations
by Mr. Hugh Main, B.Sc., and Mr. W. S. Gilles, and an address
was presented, signed by the President and Secretary, on behalf
of the Club.
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB—REPORTS OF
MEETINGS.
ORDINARY MEETING (707th MEETING).
SATURDAY, 29TH OCTOBER, 1932.
This meeting was held in the Physics Lecture Theatre of the Municipal
College, Romford Road, Stratford, at 3 o'clock on the above afternoon,
with Miss G. Lister, F.L.S., in the chair. Forty members attended.
The Hon. Secretary reported the serious illness of the President, Sir
David Prain, and announced that he had appointed four Vice-Presidents,
viz., Miss G. Lister, Mr. R. Paulson, Mr. D. J. Scourfield and Mr. S H,
Warren, to act in his absence.
Mr. Avery exhibited a series of twelve illustrations of Essex buildings
from the architectural journals, also six topographical prints of Ingate-
stone and its neighbourhood, Mr. Scourfield showed, under microscopes,
specimens of Euglena mutabilis, a non-flagellate infusorian found in a
swampy pond at Highbeach, also some ephippia, or so-called "winter-
eggs," of Daphnia longispina, from Leyton Flats.
Mr. Thorrington exhibited specimens of the "bird's-nest fungus,"
Crucibulum vulgare also a specimen of chalky clay (? Boulder Clay), from
his garden at Little Baddow.
The Curator showed a Manx Shearwater, which had been picked up,
recently dead, at Ardleigh in September last and presented to the Strat-
ford Museum, also a coloured cast of Red Mullet, the work of the late
Mr. A. J. Gear, and a large perspective view (reconstruction) of Barking
Abbey.
Mr. D. J. Scourfield read his Report as Delegate from the Club to the
Conference of Delegates at the York Meeting of the British Association in
August—September last.