66 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 



larger number than the present income of the Club will bear. The remaining part 

 for 1 89 1, as well as the parts for January to March, 1892, are now being printed off, 

 and will soon be in the members' hands. The Naturalist will then be quite 

 up to date. The alteration of the rules with respect to the subscription to the 

 journal has worked well, about 300 members having agreed to subscribe the extra 

 45. 6^. per annum. This is a large proportion of the entire membership, a pro- 

 portion that may be expected to increase, as almost every new member subscribes. 

 It should be remembered that the Honorary and Life members receive the 

 Naturalist free, and also that our roll includes many married couples, and 

 relatives living in the same house, who naturally take but one copy. It may be 

 anticipated that ninety per cent, of the members will ultimately subscribe to our 

 publication. 



The papers printed in the Essex Naturalist maintained the valuable feature of 

 treating mainly of Essex subjects, and they were in many instances original contri- 

 butions towards an accurate knowledge of the natural productions and phenomena 

 of our county. The Council has to thank Mr. Walter Crouch for the block of 

 the Fairlop Oak, published in the Essex Naturalist, and Mr. H. A. Cole for 

 several drawings and blocks which he has prepared free of cost to the Club. 



"Journal of Proceedings, E.F.C." — It will be remembered that on the 

 establishment of the Essex Naturalist in January, 1887, the volume of the 

 Journal of Proceedings was left unfinished, and the pressure of other matters 

 has hitherto prevented the publication of the missing part. The Council is now 

 very glad to announce that the whole of the matter has been prepared by Mr. 

 Cole, and is in type, and that the part will be published in a few weeks' time. 

 It will contain extended reports of all meetings of the Club from February 23rd, 

 1884, to January 29th, 1887 (together with Title and Index to vol. iv. of the Pro- 

 ceedings), after which date reports appeared in the Essex N.\TUR.\LIST, — as well 

 as the sixth and seventh Annual Reports of the Council, and many small papers 

 which remained unpublished during the years 1884 to 1887. 



The part is, of course, absolutely indispemahle to complete the set of the 

 " Transactions " and " Proceedings " of the Club, which will then consist of five 

 volumes containing about 1,490 pages. 



The printing of the limited edition of the part will possibly cost about £'^0^ 

 and the Council has fixed the price at 5^-. to Members, and 6j. bd. to Non- 

 members, post free. 



It is hoped that every member possessing the Transactions will take this 

 part to complete their sets, and to save the Club from serious loss by reason of its 

 publication. 



Meetings and Papers, etc.. Contributed. — Thirteen Ordinary and 

 Field Meetings have been held, and the remarks made in the last Annual Report 

 as to the interest of most of the meetings fully apply to those held in the past 

 year. At these meetings a considerable number of papers ha\'e been read, and 

 most of them have been already printed in the EssE.X Naturalist, together 

 with others which have been communicated direct to the Editor. In addition to 

 these, very manj^ smaller " notes " have been printed, as well as extended reports 

 of the meetings of the Club. 



Field Meetings have been held in Epping Forest to view the recent addition 

 of portion of Highams Park to the Forest ; at Newport and Ouendon Hall, where 

 the Club was most hospitably received at luncheon by Lieut. -Col. A. M. 



