TRANSACTIONS
OF
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
I.
The Presidential Address; Delivered by Professor G. S.
Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., at the Annual
Meeting, January 26th, 1884.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Since our last Annual Meeting, when you did me
the honour to elect me to this chair, I think I may say that
the Club has experienced a year of life that may fairly he
termed successful. The nett increase in our numbers is
satisfactory; but I would impress upon you the importance
of still further enlisting the sympathies of residents in the
county, especially in its more remote parts. Unable to
attend our meetings, and in some cases beyond the range of
the Field Meetings we have as yet attempted, it is by our
publications that we must appeal to this wider constituency,
in order that we may with their aid more completely repre-
sent the county, and come to be, in the words of our late
circular, "looked upon as the Scientific Registry Office for
the county."
We have had to deplore the loss by death during the year
of Mr. G. S. Gibson, of Mr. J. E. Howard, and of Dr. Charles
T. Pearce, the latter a frequent attendant at our meetings,
well known as an opponent, I regret to say, of vaccination.
George Stacey Gibson1 was born on July 20th, 1818, at
Saffron Walden. He was the only child of Wyatt George
1 [The photograph from which the portrait is taken was kindly lent to
the Editor for the engraver's use by Mrs. Gibson.—Ed.]
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