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THE ESSEX NATURALIST.
ANNUAL MEETING (812th MEETING) AND ORDINARY
(813th MEETING).
SATURDAY, MARCH 30TH, 1940.
These meetings were held at 3 o 'clock on the above date in the Physics
Lecture Theatre of the Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford, with
the President, Mr. S. Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in the chair. Only 24
members attended.
The Ordinary Meeting was held first.
Mrs. Rosina Gladwyn, of "St. George," Hainault Road, Chigwell,
Essex, was elected to membership of the Club.
Miss G. Lister exhibited the huge tuberous roots of Black Bryony
(Tamus) to which she had referred at the previous meeting and presented
the specimen to the Museum: she also showed her sketches of details
of structure of the stipules, or so-called "emergences," visible on Spring
shoots of this plant.
She also exhibited a dried specimen of Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)
to illustrate the method of dispersal of its fruits by the deciduous calyx.
Miss Lister presented to the Museum a Pipistrelle Bat, in the flesh.
Miss Pollard exhibited five small oil-paintings of Walthamstow views
as in 1880, and presented two of these to the Museum.
Mr. Linder exhibited further finds from the "red-hills" on Canvey
Island: of these, he presented to the Museum specimens of pottery
fragments and a beautiful bronze pin of Romano-British date.
Mr. Graddon showed under a microscope two new discomycetes from
Essex, Ombrophila alniella, growing on dead female catkins of Alder, and
Ciboria amentacea, growing on dead male catkins of Hazel, both from
Navestock.
The Curator showed fifteen pen-and-ink drawings by Mr. Arthur
Parsons of views of Wanstead in the 80's and 90's of last century, which
had just been purchased for the Pictorial Survey.
Thanks were accorded to the various donors and exhibitors.
The business of the Annual Meeting followed.
The Hon. Secretary, on behalf of the Council, referred to the war-time
conditions now prevailing, and recommended, as a war-time measure, that
the existing members of the Council, as well as the Officers of the Club,
should be retained in their several offices for a further year.
After the President had invited expressions of opinion from the
meeting, Mr. Batchelor moved formally that this recommendation from
the Council be adopted. Mrs. Crouch seconded. Carried unanimously.
The President then gave his Address, entitled "Geological and Pre-
historic Traps." At its conclusion Mr. Linder thanked the President
for the Address and asked that it might be published in the Club's Journal :
to this the President agreed. The vote of thanks was endorsed by
acclamation.
The proceedings then terminated.