EDITORIAL
With this issue of the Bulletin we start another
summer season of outdoor meetings. You will see from the
programme up to the end of June, there is a good selection
of outings, covering all fields of interest. The Programme
for the second half-year is not yet fully prepared but I do
know that there will be many more to come. I hope we shall
see many of you on these meetings and that we shall have
good weather for them.
One of the matters that has concerned the Council of the
Club in recent times is the membership. It would be good to
see a substantial increase in the numbers; why not make this
a year in which every member recruited another new member?
It should not be difficult to get just one each. To help
matters, the Club will be going on show with the Essex
Naturalists' Trust at such places as the Harlow Town Show and
one or two others during this summer. Elsewhere in this
Bulletin we are calling for volunteers to make these shows a
success, hoping there will be an increase in membership as a
result of the publicity.
And now, from me all good wishes for a good season of
natural history activities, and please let me have reports
and articles on what you see and do, for inclusion in the
Summer Bulletin.
Roy Masefield
CORRECTION
The report of an Orange Tip butterfly on Skippers
Island meeting last year (Bulletin No.4, page 16) was
incorrect. These butterflies are seen very rarely, and never
in September.
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