PRESENTATION TO MR. WILLIAM COLE. II9 



of the formal Address of Thanks, and to meet the various 

 incidental expenses. 



The Dinner was held at the Royal Forest Hotel, Chingford, 

 Essex, on the gth December 1905, and was an unqualified 

 success. It was attended by nearly one hundred subscribers 

 and their friends (each subscriber having the right to 

 bring a guest), including the special Guests of the Evening — 

 Messrs. William Cole, F.L.S., B. G. Cole, and H. 

 A. Cole, Miss Cole, and Miss Jane Cole. The subscribers 

 and guests were formally received on their arrival by 

 Prof, and Mrs. Meldola, Mrs. Howard, and Mr. Miller Christy. 



The chair at the dinner w T as occupied by Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S. (first President of the Essex Field Club), and among those 

 present were Mr. T. F. V. Buxton, J. P. (High Sheriff of Essex), 

 Mr. David Howard, J. P., D.L , F.I.C, F.C.S., Mr. Miller 

 Christy, F.L.S. (President of the Essex Field Club), Professor 

 G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S., Mr. P. Gellatly, D.L., J. P. 

 (Verderer of Epping Forest), Mr. J. E. Harting, F.Z.S., Mr. T. 

 Vincent Holmes, F.G.S., Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S. , F.G.S., 

 Mr. W, Mark Webb, F.L.S. (Hon. Sec. of the Selborne Society), 

 Mr. John Spiller, F.C.S., Mr. W. Whitaker, F.R.S., Mr. 

 Horace B. Woodward, F.R.S., Dr. J. H. B. Burrage, M.A. 

 (H.M. Inspector of Secondary Schools and Technical Institutes), 

 Miss Mary H. Cole, Mr. Bryan Corcoran, Mr. John Avery. Mr. 

 F. W. Elliott, Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Finzi, Miss K. M. Hall, 

 F.L.S., the Rev. W. C. Howell, M.A., Mr. W. Ping, F.C.S., 

 Mr. G. E. Pritchett, F.S.A., Mr. Frank W. Reader, Mr. Thomas 

 W. Reader, F.G.S., Mr. J. R. Roberts, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas 

 Royle, Miss Royle, Mr. Matthew Rose, Mr. J. C. Shenstone, 

 Mr. G. E. Vaughan, Mr. Joseph Wilson, and Mr. J. M. Wood. 

 Several others who were expected telegraphed at the last moment 

 expressing regret at their inability to be present. These 

 included Mr. A. E. Briscoe, INI r. J. Byford, jun. (late Mayor 

 of West Ham), Mr. H. I. Coburn (Hon. Solicitor to the Club), 

 and Mr. I. Chalkley Gould. 



When the time arrived for speeches, 



The Chairman said : Ladies and Gentlemen, we have met together on this 

 occasion in circumstances of peculiar interest. It is a notable thing in the 

 history of any Society to be enabled to celebrate its half-jubilee. The Essex 

 Field Club has completed twenty-five years of active work, but the interest of 

 this gathering centres chieflv in the fact that what the Club has been 



