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If members have any records for 1987 please send
them so that they can be published.
M. T. PARKER
SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR 1986
The Council of The Essex Field Club met four times
during 1986. At the end of the year membership had
fallen to 292, 30 names having been removed from the
list because of resignation or because no subscription
had been received. Eleven new members had joined.
On the 8th March, 1986, at the Annual General Meeting,
Col. A. M. Emmet was re-elected President and gave his
Presidential Address entitled "Unusual Life Histories
of Microlepidoptera". Mr. M. Hanson was elected Editor
of The Naturalist and Mr. A. Bunker, Mr. 0. Keen and
Mr. D. Smith as Ordinary Members of Council.
During the year 40 meetings were arranged. Three of
the 11 General Meetings were indoor talks. Mr. Ted
Benton told us about the Dragonflies of Essex, Miss
P. Wilkinson about Recent Archaeological Work at the
Passmore Edwards Museum and Miss F. Talbot about
Geology at the same Museum. The outdoor meetings
included walks in Epping Forest and at Danbury,
examining Diptera at Hales Wood Nature Reserve, moth
trapping at Bradwell, identifying trees at Syon Park,
searching for grasshoppers and crickets at Colliers
Hatch and the annual fungus foray in Epping Forest.
The Ornithology Group held 12 meetings throughout the
county, including listening to the dawn chorus and the
close down chorus in June. Eight meetings were
arranged by the Botany Group, one of these concentrating
on mosses and liverworts and another on Hieraciums.