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Mr. Avery exhibited some dozen prints and photographs of Chigwell.
The Curator showed a specimen of Leptocephalus morrisii, the larval
form of the Conger eel ; this was one of two specimens which were caught
by fishermen in a net in the Thames Estuary, off the Yantlet buoy, on
April 6th of this year and handed over to our member Mr. F. J. Lambert;
who kept it alive in his aquarium for 13 days and then presented it to the
Stratford Museum ; it is about 61/4 ins. long. The second, smaller, speci-
men was given to the British Museum—Natural History.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a tinted photograph of Henry Doubleday,
the Quaker naturalist of Epping, and some letters and other relics of him,
all of which had recently been presented to the Museum by Mrs. C. A.
Malone, of Ipswich.
He also reported a valuable donation of Essex books made to the
Club's Library by our member, the late Mr. J. J. Holdsworth, shortly
before his decease. These were exhibited to the members in the Museum
after the meeting.
Thanks were passed to the donors and exhibitors.
The President called upon Mr. Rupert Coles, B.A., who delivered a
Lecture on "The Past History of the Forest of Essex," which he illus-
trated by a series of lantern-maps and diagrams. A discussion ensued
in which Mrs. Hatley, Messrs. Thompson, Barns and Nunn joined.
The Chairman proposed the best thanks of the meeting to the lecturer
for his very interesting communication ; these were warmly accorded, and
Mr. Coles thanked the members for their appreciation.
ORDINARY MEETING (725TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 27TH JANUARY, 1934.
This meeting was held as usual in the Physics Lecture Theatre of the
Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford, at 3 o'clock on the above
date, with the President, Mr. William E. Glegg, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., in the
chair. Some 40 members were present.
The Walthamstow Public Libraries (Mr. Geo. E. Roebuck, Chief
Librarian) were elected an Institutional Member of the Club.
Mr. Ward exhibited the skin of a Guillemot, Uria aalge, which he had
obtained in peculiar circumstances. The specimen is an example of the
northern form of the Guillemot, which breeds in the Shetlands and farther
north ; it was found on December 15th last alive in the Bunhill Fields Burial
Ground in the City Road, in central London. It lived for three days after
its capture, then died, and was interred in its chosen retreat, the Bunhill
Fields Burial Ground,—only to be exhumed, eleven days later (!) and then
gallantly skinned by the exhibitor.
The Curator exhibited a mounted specimen of the Gannet Sula bassana,
which had recently been given to the Stratford Museum by Mrs. G. H.
Murray, of Ilford. This identical bird is mentioned in Glegg's "History
"of the Birds of Essex," as having been taken alive in Stratford High
Street in October, 1911, by Mr. G. Murray, father of the donor, who confirms
the account of its capture.
Mr. Thompson also showed six water-colour views of Essex, which
had just been presented to the Museum collection by the artist, Mrs. J. E.
Scourfield.