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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
On behalf of the members the President heartily thanked Dr. Sherlock for
what he had done for them that afternoon and he congratulated Dr.
Sherlock and others concerned on the excellence of the new Museum and
its contents. In reply, Dr. Sherlock thanked the President for his appre-
ciation and said he felt it was never time wasted in conducting around
the museum people who were really interested in the exhibits. The party
subsequently dispersed.
[The above report is by Mr. J. Salmon, who organised the visit.]
ORDINARY MEETING (754TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 25TH JANUARY, 1936.
This Meeting was held as usual at 3 o'clock on the above afternoon in
the Physics Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road,
Stratford, with the President, Mr. William E. Glegg, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., in
the chair. Forty members attended.
Before the business of the meeting began, the President asked those
present to stand in silence, when he made the following announcement :—
Since our last meeting we have to mourn the loss of a well-beloved
King, one of the greatest, yet one of the kindliest and most unassuming,
in our history. King George V. passed to his rest on January 20th at
11.55 p.m., mourned universally by his people throughout the Empire,
in whose hearts he held an unassailable position of loyal affection.
Our new monarch, His Majesty King Edward VIII., is a worthy
successor to his lamented Father. Admired and loved by all, sharing
as he does in the most varied interests of the people, "one of ourselves"
indeed, he comes to the Throne with a wide experience of men and affairs
and with a personal charm of manner which assures His Majesty of the
affectionate regard of all, of whatever station in life.
God Save the King.
The President announced that the Council proposed to send Addresses
of Sympathy to His Majesty the King, to Her Majesty the Queen-Mother
and to our Patron, His Royal Highness the Duke of Connaught. The
proposal was agreed unanimously.
The President also referred to the recent decease of Brigadier-General
Sir R. B. Colvin, K.C.B., Lord Lieutenant of Essex and a distinguished
member of the Club, and stated that a letter of condolence had been sent,
in the name of the Club, to Lady Gwendoline Colvin.
Mr. Mothersole exhibited some celts found by him in the Chelmsford
neighbourhood, and three arrowheads from a Claypit near Springfield,
two of them barbed and tanged.
The Curator showed a set of nineteen pencil sketches of old buildings
in the neighbourhoods of Burnham and Southminster, executed by Miss
Constance Roebuck in 1918 and recently presented to the Stratford
Museum ; he also exhibited twenty-one photographs illustrating the same
neighbourhoods, from the Club's collection.
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a complete right femur of Hippopotamus,
found as a fossil in Pleistocene clay at Swalecliffe, near Whitstable, in Kent,
which had been restored in the Museum.
The President then called upon Mr. George Morris, B.Sc., who gave a
descriptive account of some of his "Recent Neolithic Finds from the