lxviii
Journal of Proceedings.
Saturday, October 29th, 1881.—Ordinary Meeting.
The 21st Ordinary Meeting was held at the Head-quarters at seven
o'clock, the President in the Chair.
Donations of books or pamphlets were announced from Messrs. E.
Brown, S. N. Carvalho, B. G. Cole, B. Meldola, and Miss M. S. Ridley.
Various specimens for the Museum were contributed by Messrs. English,
Travis, White, and E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. A unanimous vote of thanks
to the donors was passed.
The following persons were balloted for and elected members of the
Club :—Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P., Sir H. J. Selwin-Ibbetson, Bart., M.P.,
Miss Marian Ridley, and Edward Unwin.
The President announced that at the York Meeting of the British
Association, the Report on the Excavations at Ambresbury Banks had
been read, and that subsequently the Secretary had received the following
communication from Prof. Bonney :—
" British Association for the Advancement of Science,
" 22, Albemarle Street, W.,
" 13th October, 1881.
" Sir,
" I am directed by the General Committee of the British Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of Science, to transmit to you the following
Copy of a Resolution, which was adopted by the Committee at the last
Meeting of the Association, and to request your attention thereto :—
" That Mr. R. Meldola, General Pitt-Rivers, and Mr. Wm. Cole, be a
Committee, for the purpose of investigating the antient earthwork in
Epping Forest, known as Loughton Camp; and that Mr. W. Cole be
the Secretary.
" I have the honour to be,
'' Your very obedient Servant,
" T. G. BONNEY, Secretary.
"To W. Cole, Esq."
He thought that the Club might be congratulated on receiving this
recognition of its work at the hands of such an influential body as the
British Association, and he hoped it would prove an incentive to the
members to support the Society in the course of action it had struck out
for itself.
Three communications stood for discussion upon the Agenda paper ;
Mr. Fitch asked permission to take his essay first as he had to return to
Maldon that evening. The paper, entitled "The Galls of Essex,"
[Transactions, ii. 98], was then read by the author. Mr. Pitch illus-
trated his memoir during its delivery by the exhibition of various coloured
plates contained in Dr. Adler's essay and other German publications, and
by references to his own extensive collection of galls and gall-making
insects, with their inquilines and parasites, which he had brought with
him, and which was on view in one of the meeting rooms,