JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS
AT
ORDINARY, FIELD, AND OTHER MEETINGS.
Saturday, February 25th, 1882.—Ordinary Meeting.
The twenty-fifth Ordinary Meeting was held at the head-quarters at
seven o'clock, the President in the chair.
Donations of books, pamphlets, or periodicals (exclusive of "ex-
changes" with other scientific societies) were announced from Mr. R. L.
Barnes (2 journals monthly), Lady Brady, Mr. C. Darwin, Mr. Andrew
Johnston (2 vols.), Mr. A. Lockyer, Sir John Lubbock, Miss E. A. Orme-
rod, Mr. W. White, and Mr. A. P. Wire. Mr. Cl. C. Harcourt presented
to the museum the first portion of a collection of the flowering plants of
the Forest district (preserved with their natural colours and forms by
Mr. English), consisting of 127 species, and the six cases containing the
same. Mr. C. Oldham presented a number of bones and horn-cores of a
species of Bos found in digging a trench in a yard in Maybank Road, near
George Lane Station, Woodford, concerning the age of which some
doubt was expressed. Mr. Saward presented a number of skins of Essex
birds (12 species), and stuffed specimens of six species ; also a stuffed
specimen of the common weasel. Miss Spicer, stuffed specimens of the
jay and missel thrush, from Woodford.
Cordial votes of thanks were passed to the donors, special attention
being directed to Mr. Harcourt's interesting and valuable present.
The following persons were elected members of the Club:—Messrs. T.
C. Baring, M.P., D.L., &c., Chalkley Gould, J. H. Gurney (Jun.), F.Z.S.,
W. H. Harwood, Henry Laver, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., Walter Mawer, F.G.S..
D. J. Morgan, and A. P. Wire.
The President said—We have to record the death of one of our mem-
bers, Mr. George Thomas Saul, who died on the 22nd January, at the age
of Git. Although never personally with us, he took great interest in the
work we are doing, and helped our fund for the investigation of the
Ancient Camps. He was a Fellow of the Zoological, Royal Botanical,
Horticultural, and other Societies, and took great interest in the intro-
duction and propagation of new plants. Large-hearted and of warm
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