viii Appendix.
Chigwell, by the Rev. Linton Wilson and Mrs. Wilson, who again
accorded to the Club the hospitality they had before exercised.
On July 25th a most successful and enjoyable whole day meeting
was spent in the neighbourhood of Witham, Faulkbourne, Black Notley
and Terling, and the Club was entertained by Lord and Lady Rayleigh
at Terling Place. At the kind invitation of Prof. Flower, the Club was
specially received at the Zoological Gardens on May 16th, when the
Professor delivered an address, and conducted the party over the collec-
tions. The sixth Annual Cryptogamic Meeting was one of the largest and
most successful ever held by the Club, and the Council received the aid
and co-operation of a very large number of eminent botanists and scien-
tific men.
Denehole Explorations.—The investigations at Hangman's
Wood were not resumed during the last season owing to the inability of
Mr. Holmes and the Hon. Secretary to devote the large amount of time
(three weeks or a month) to that purpose. The Committee were unable
to obtain any volunteers to aid in the work, and the investigation was
very reluctantly postponed until the next season, when it is hoped that
some arrangement may be made as to carrying on the explorations.
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR THE
YEAR 1886.
[Read at the Seventh, Animal General Meeting, held at Loughton,
January 89th, 1887.]
The Presidential Address to-night being mainly occupied with the
consideration of the past history and future work of the Club, it is
unnecessary to give here more than a brief record of the events of the
year 1886.
Owing to the fact that a considerable number of members are still in
arrears with their subscriptions, and consequently have rendered them-
selves liable to removal from the Club by the Council, the number of
effective members on our roll cannot yet be stated with exactness. The
Council will deal with the members in arrear in a summary manner very
shortly, and the officers will be enabled to give the precise numbers at
a future meeting.
Fifty or sixty members will possibly be expelled from the Club for
non-payment, of subscriptions for two years and upwards, but as most of
these have always been in arrear, and in some cases have never paid
anything, their expulsion will not affect the prosperity of the Club-
indeed, non-paying members can only be a source of weakness, anxiety,
and expense. It should be the endeavour of every well-wisher of the