Appendix. vii
Scientific Meetings and Memoirs Contributed.— Bight
Ordinary Scientific Meetings have been held in addition to Ordinary
Meetings held for the election of members at Field Meetings. The
number and character of the papers and addresses at these meetings
fully sustain the character of previous years. In order to prevent in
some measure the too rapid accumulation of papers which must be
printed in the ' Transactions,' the Council has authorised the Secretary,
on two occasions, to obtain the services of well-known naturalists as
lecturers, and this plan has worked so well that it is intended to repeat
it as occasion may require.
The following is a list of memoirs and addresses delivered to the Club
during 1885, excluding short notes on exhibits and verbal communica-
tions :—
"The Life and Work of John Ray, and their relation to the Progress of
Science." Prof. G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S.
"Report on the Bast Anglian Earthquake of April 22nd, 1884." R.
Meldola, F.R.A.S., F.C.S., and W. White, M.E.S.
"On some Crystalline Rocks from the Drift in the neighbourhood of
Felstead. Essex." Rev. A. W. Rowe, M.A., F.G.S.
"Additional Notes on the Flora of the neighbourhood of Colchester." J.
C. Shenstone, F.R.M.S.
"Historical and Antiquarian Sketches of East Ham and Barking."
(Address at Field Meeting.) Walter Crouch.
"Birds of Prey (Aetomorphae), with especial reference to those recorded
from Essex." (Lecture.) J. G. GOODCHILD, F.L.S., F.G.S.
Address and demonstration on principal types of animals in Zoological
Gardens. Prof. W. H. Flower, LL.D., F.R.S..
"Withamburg." F. C. J. Spurrell, F.G.S.
"On the Pen Pits." T. V. Holmes, F.G.S.
"The Domestic Life of John Ray at Black Notley." Prof. G. S.
Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S.
"John Ray as an Entomologist." Edward A. Fitch, F.L.S., F.E.S.
"Faulkbourne and its Church." (Address.) Rev. F. Spurrlel, M.A.
''The Mechanical Questions involved in the Flight of Birds." (Address.)
Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S.
"The Uses of Fungi." Dr. H. T. Wharton, M.A., F.Z.S.
"Some Botanical Mare's-nests—chiefly Fungological." Worthington
G. Smith, F.L.S.
"Mosses and their Allies, with special reference to those in Essex.
Prof. Boulger, F.L.S.
"Notes on Drift Maps, with especial reference to those of Essex." T. V.
Holmes, F.G.S.
"On a New British Alga (Vaucheria sphaerospora) lately found at
Maldon. Essex." E. M. Holmes, F.L.S.
"The Migration of Birds." (Lecture.) J. E. Harting, F.L.S.
Field Meetings.—Five Field Meetings have been held ; one at
West Ham and Barking, under the leadership of Mr. Walter Crouch and
Mr. Hy. Walker, on which occasion the Club was most hospitably
entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Royle. On May 9th a Field Meeting was
held at Grays, for the purpose of showing the members of the Geologists'
Association the recent operations in the Deneholes. On May 30th the
Club was received at a Field and Ordinary Meeting at "Oakhurst,"