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The President intimated that he would reserve his address until the evening 

 meeting, in accordance with the announcement made in the circular. 



Mr. Howard said that they ought to express to Mr. Rudler the best thanks of 

 the Members and Council, for the care and high scientific qualities which he had 

 devoted to the Club during his two years of office. (Applause.) 



The Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma also emphasised the debt they owed to their 

 retiring President, and begged to move a vote of thanks to the several Officers for 

 their work. He considered it a remarkable fact that a local Society should 

 maintain a vigorous life during so long period as 25 years, and still show full 

 power tor future work. He thought that they all recognised the excellent efforts 

 of their Officers. 



The thanks to the President and Officers were carried amidst applause. 

 Mr. Christy desired to thank the Club for the honour done to him in choosing 

 him as President. He had been connected with Club ever since its foundation, 

 and felt a most sincere interest in its welfare. He hoped that a strong effort 

 would be made to increase the membership of the Club, and to spread its 

 influence more widely in the County. He would submit some proposals to the 

 Council, with this end in view, during the year. 



The meeting was then declared Special, in order to consider and adopt the 

 Amended Rules. The Secretary had summarised the alterations and 

 additions to the rules in the circular calling the Meeting, and proofs of the 

 Amended Rules were on the table. 



On the proposal of the President the Rules were adopted unanimously by 

 the Meeting. 



Copies of the Amended Rules have since been sent to all Members of the 

 Club, and the Rules are printed in the Year-book, a copy of which will be sent to- 

 each Member. 



The Meeting then adjourned for tea, to re-assemble in the evening. 



THE 237th ORDINARY MEETING. 



Saturday, April 8th, 1905. 



The Annual Meeting having been held!in the afternoon, an Ordinary Meeting 

 was held after tea, at 0.30 o'clock, Mr. F. W. Rudler, V.P., in the chair. 



New Member. — Mr. Frank Thompson, Slyder's Gate, Loughton, was 

 elected a Member. 



Exhibits.— Mr. W. H. Dalton, F.G.S., exhibited a considerable assortment 

 of fossils and minerals, from various parts of the world, which he had obtained 

 during his recent professional journeys : — 



(1) He drew special attention to marl crowded with small Rissoa, &c, from, 

 the Miocene of Frankport-on- Main, which he had brought for comparison with 

 similar accumulations on the present shores of Essex. 



(2 Also a small collection of shells gathered in the course of a few hours 

 delay on the shore of the Okhotsk Sea,on the eastern side of the island of Sakhalin. 

 Their resemblance to, if not specific identity with, our British Myadse, Tellinidas, 

 Mactridae, Buccinida?, &c, is remarkable, in view, less of the wide difference of 

 longitude between Sakhalin and Essex, than of the difficulties, in respect of 

 temperature, to any interchange of marine forms across either the Polar or the 

 Equatorial seas. 



