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At the Annual General Meeting in March, Col.
Maitland Emmet retired as President and gave
his Presidential address 'Essex Lepidop-
terists'. Two new Ordinary Members of Council
were elected, Mrs. Maureen Tollfree and Mr.
David Scott: Mr. Martin Henry and Mr. Peter
Leswell, standing down after three years'
service. In July Dr. Fiona Hughes took over
the position of Meetings Secretary.
As Mrs. Kate Rowland moved away from Essex, we
were pleased to welcome Mr. Peter Harvey as our
new Spider Recorder.
In the summer, the Club purchased a PC1512
Amstrad Word Processor. As well as being used
for general correspondence and the Bulletin, it
will be used to produce the Naturalist, thus
helping to keep costs down, and will save many
hours typing envelopes.
Two issues of the Bulletin were published
during the year, edited by Mr. Tony Boniface,
the second being produced on the word
processor.
A total of 24 meetings were held during 1987.
Two of the General Meetings were talks given by
Mr. B. Harley on 'The Making of a Natural
History Book' and Mr. P. Gotham about
Snettisham Reserve. Outdoor General Meetings
included a visit to the water treatment works
at Chigwell, the red squirrel count and
watching stone curlews in Thetford Forest,
dating hedgerows at the River Roding Reserve,
visiting Wat Tyler Park and Pitsea Marshes for
dragonflies, a visit to Daws Hall Nature
Reserve and to Wrabness, and the annual Fungus