280 THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
afternoon, with the President, Mr. John Ramsbottom, O.B.E., Sec.L.S.,
etc., in the chair. 46 persons were present.
Mr. G. H, R. Curnock, of 94, Hermon Hill, South Woodford, E.18, was
elected a "Junior Member" of the Club.
Mr. Carter exhibited a collection of objects, including several palaeo-
lithic hand-axes, Romano-British pottery, Anglo-Saxon shield-boss,
bronze armlet, fibula, pottery spindle-whorls and iron sword, all of which
had been found in a sandpit in the neighbourhood of Rainham.
Mr. Scourfield showed eggs and living nauplii of the Brine Shrimp,
Artemia saliva, which are now being imported (as eggs) into this country
from California and used for fish-food : the eggs will hatch, after desiccation
for several years, on immersion in slightly saline water.
Mr. Dennis exhibited, and presented to the Museum collection, twelve
photographs of cottages near Bures, also a wild variety of Common Poly-
pody with crested tips to the pinnae, and a specimen of Holly showing
curious variations in the leaves.
The Curator showed 30 Essex prints, portion of a collection purchased
at public auction in November last at the Wrigley sale.
He also exhibited a number of West Indian animals, found alive
among bananas on arrival in this country : they included several so-called
"Bird-eating Spiders" and other spiders with their egg-cocoons, a
millepede, a centipede, a scorpion, a tortoise-beetle, a butterfly, three
kinds of cockroaches, a cricket, a mollusc, a non-poisonous snake and a
mammalian embryo.
In the absence through indisposition of the author, a paper, illustrated
by lantern-diagrams, on "Some Uncommon British Flagellates," by
Dr. Frank W. Jane, was read by Mr. Scourfield.
Mr. Scourfield also read his Report, as Club's Delegate, on the British
Association Meeting at Blackpool in September, 1936.
Dr. Rupert Coles gave a lecture entitled "Enclosures : Essex Agri-
"culture, 1500—1900," which he illustrated by a large number of lantern-
maps.
Thanks were passed to the lecturer and to readers of communications.
ORDINARY MEETING (770TH MEETING).
SATURDAY, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1937.
This Meeting was held at 3 o'clock on the above date in the Physics
Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford, with
Mr. John Ramsbottom, O.B.E., Sec.L.S., etc., President, in the chair.
54 members attended.
Dr. Fred Stoker, F.L.S., and Mrs. M. W. Stoker, of The Summit, Gold-
ings Hill, Loughton, Essex, were elected Members of the Club.
The Hon. Secretary announced that, in anticipation of the approaching
Annual Meeting, the Council nominated the President and Officers of the
Club en bloc for re-election.
The Hon. Secretary reported that, under the Rules, Sir Gurney Ben-
ham, Mr. C. Bestow, Miss E. Prince and Mr. J. M. Wood were due to retire