42 THE ESSEX NATURALIST
Miss Willings exhibited some cultures of bacteria to show the effect
thereon of penicillin. 
Mr. Ross reported on the Mycetozoa met with in Epping Forest during
the past year ; these were fewer than usual (59 species) and none was seen
during November, on account of weather unfavourable for their development
(see p. 16).
The President showed a specimen of Yellow Birch timber from Canada
which was attacked by the mycelium of a fungus, probably a Xylaria or allied
form.
A communication: "Some Notes on the Red-backed Shrike," by Mr.
J. H. Owen, was read in abstract by the Hon. Secretary.
A paper by Mr. William E. Glegg on "Subordinate Markings of the
Feathers of Birds" was read by the Hon. Secretary in the absence of the
author (vide E.N., xxvii, p. 300).
An exhibition of lantern photographs of views in Epping Forest had
to be abandoned owing to a defect in the lantern.
THE ANNUAL MEETING (859th Meeting)
SATURDAY, MARCH 30TH, 1946
This meeting was held at 3 o'clock in the Physics Lecture Theatre of the
Municipal College, Stratford, with the President, Dr. Frank W. Jane, in
the chair. About 30 members attended.
Mr. Rowland J. Bennett, of 110, James Lane, Leyton, E.10, was elected
a member of the Club.
The Curator exhibited some lantern photographs of Epping Forest
and a large number of photographs from the Pictorial Survey Collection to
illustrate neighbourhoods likely to be visited by the Club during the summer.
The business of the Annual Meeting followed.
On behalf of the Council the Hon. Secretary reported his own resignation
of the editorship of the Essex Naturalist, and the Council's recommenda-
tions, viz., that Mr. C. Bignell Pratt be elected Assistant Editor (under the
temporary editorship of the President), with a view to ultimate appointment
as full Editor ; that Miss Grace Hilbert be appointed Hon. Excursions Secre-
tary, and that, with the above modifications, existing members of the Council
and Officers be retained in their present positions for a further year. These
recommendations, on being put to the meeting, were carried without
dissentient.
The Hon. Secretary mentioned that the Club's finances were in satisfactory
state, about £100 having been added to reserve since the beginning of the war,
and added some figures on the growth of the Library and Pictorial Survey.
The President delivered his Address, entitled, "The Colonial Habit in
some Lower Organisms," which he illustrated by a series of lantern diagrams
(see p. 3).
At the conclusion of the Address, Mr. Scourfield thanked the President
for the same, and spoke of his own special interest in the subject : the meeting
warmly applauded the Address.
There being no further business, the meeting closed at 4.25 o'clock.
SPRING RAMBLE IN EPPING FOREST (860th Meeting)
SATURDAY, APRIL 27TH, 1946
The party assembled at the L.P.T.B. Garage, Loughton, at 11 a.m.
for a walk in the Forest under the leadership of Mr. J. Ross.
After enjoying the view of the Forest in its spring-time garb of varied
green from Baldwins Hill, the members passed to Goldings Hill, where