Journal of Proceedings. lxvii
Saturday, January 22nd, 1881.—Ordinary and Annual Meetings
In accordance with notice sent to all members, the Annual General
Meeting was held at the Head Quarters, the President in the chair.
Previous to the Annual Meeting an Ordinary Meeting took place,
when the following were elected members of the Club :—Mrs. Barnes,
Rev. W. J. Bolton, M.A., Edward Brooke, J.P., D.L., &c, Lieut.-Col.
Russell, J.P., D.L., &c, Samuel Smith, Frederick Stewart, J. G.
Thomasin, Mrs. Thomasin, Rev. W. J. Wright, B.A.
The following books and magazines were presented to the library:—
Gerarde's "Herball, or General Historie of Plantes," presented by Mr.
J. Hutchison; "Midland Naturalist" (monthly), by Mr. A. Lockyer;
"Naturalist" (monthly), by Mr. G. H. Lockyer; "American Ento-
mologist" (monthly), by Mr. F. T. Lockyer ; "Flora of Essex County-
Mass." and "Notes on Woody Plants of Essex County Mass.," by the
author, Mr. J. Robinson; Moffat's "Insectorum sive Minimorum
Animalium Theatrum," &c, 1634, by Mr. B. G Cole; "Nature"
(weekly); "The Cobham Journals," and "Synopsis Plantarum insulis
Britannicis, &c," by Mr. W. Cole. By exchange:—"The Proceedings
of the Boston Society of Natural History," Vol. XX., Parts 1, 2, and 3;
and "Report of South London Entomological Society for 1880."
It was also announced that the Rev. F. A. Walker, B.D., F.L.S.,
had presented to the Club his Collections of Birds, Birds'-eggs, and
Insects, formed during the preparation of his "History of Dry Drayton,
London, 1876."
The thanks of the Society were unanimously voted for the above
valuable donations.
The Secretary read a letter he had received from Mr. J. Eliot
Howard, F.R.S., suggesting that the needs of insectivorous birds should
be provided for during the hard weather by hanging a netted bag full
of scraps of meat, suet, &c, from the bough of a tree or bush in some
convenient place. Mr. Robarts remarked that he had adopted Mr.
Howard's suggestion ; the plan answered well, and the lively habits of
the hungry little visitors afforded much pleasure.
The President said the Society was probably aware that the Council
had passed a resolution as follows ; that it had appeared in most of the
influential London and county newspapers, and that the scheme of
destruction was almost unanimously denounced by those whose
opinion was entitled to weight. He read the resolution passed at the
Meeting of the Council on January 8th :—
"That the Council of this Society, on behalf of the large section of
the population of London interested in the pursuit of Natural History,
desires to record an emphatic protest against the proposal of the Great
Eastern Railway Company to carry a line across Epping Forest