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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



Orpinakv and Annual General Meeting, and Stecial Meeting. 



Saturday, January 31st, 1891. 



[The members from a distance assembled in the Museum during the afternoon, where they 

 examined the loan collections from South Kensington, and some explored the environs of the 

 town. Tea was taken at the " Saracen's Head " Hotel, the President in the chair.] 



The Eleventh Annual General Meeting ot the Club was held in the Essex and 

 Chelmsford Museum, New Bridge Street, Chelmsford (kindly placed at the dis- 

 posal of the Council by the Committee of the Museum), at half-past six o'clock, 

 Mr. E. A. Fitch, President, in the chair. 



Previous to the .\nnual Meeting, an Okdinaky Meeting (the 121st) was 

 held. The Rev. W. S. Lach-Szyrma, M.A., was elected a member. 

 The meeting then resolved itself into the 



Eleventh Annual General Meeting. 



The minutes of the tenth Annual Meeting, held on February 1st, 1890. were 

 read and confirmed. 



The Secretary (Mr. W. Cole) read the Annual Report of the Council for 1890 

 (see p. 35). 



Mr. Walter Crouch read the Treasurer's Annual Statement of Accounts, which 

 had been duly audited by Mr. C. Ridley and himself (see pp. 40, 41). 



On the motion of Mr. Avery, seconded by Mr. Corcoran, the report and state- 

 ment were received and adopted. 



Mr. Float and Mr Day were chosen as scrutineers of the ballot for the election 

 of new members of Council and officers for l89i,the President remarking, alluding 

 to the nom.inations for the Council, that it was the first "contested election" of 

 the Club. 



The following members retired from the Council in accordance with Rule 

 111. : — Messrs. W. J. Argent, G. C. Harcourt, N. F. Robarts, and Thomas Royle. 



To fill the four seats so rendered vacant, the following members were proposed 

 at the meeting on December 30th, 1890 : Messrs. H. Cohn, Edmund Durrant, A. 

 J. Furbank, T. B. Linley and J. H. Porter. 



While the votes were being counted, Mr. F. Chancellor (Chairman of the 

 Committee of the Essex and Chelmsford Museum) accorded all a very hearty wel- 

 come in the name of the Museum authorities, and at the request of the President, 

 spoke of the Loan Collection of Indian Art fabrics and Art specimens which had 

 been placed in the Museum by the South Kensington authorities to illustrate a 

 course of lectures on India which had been carried on during the winter. He also 

 alluded to the collection of Geological specimens, formed by the late Rev. E. S. 

 \Vright, rector of \'ange, which had been bequeathed to the Museum, and recentiv 

 handed over by his son and daugiiter. 



The scrutineers reported that the following had been elected into the Council : 

 .Mes?r^. II. Cohn, E. Durrant, A. .1. Furbank, and J. H. Porter. 



