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THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB AND THE COUNTY 

 COUNCIL OF ESSEX. 



'T^ HE outcome of the Club's application for a grant to carry on 

 -^ scientific and technical instruction work in the county (fully 

 set forth in the last vol. (iv.) of the Essex Naturalist, pp. 258-262), 

 has been the appointment of a hybrid committee for the purpose of 

 assisting in the endeavour to establish a system of technical instruc- 

 tion in Essex. At the County Council meeting held on July 7th, 

 1 89 1, the scheme of the Technical Instruction Committee was 

 adopted, which included the following recommendations. It should 

 be stated that by the scheme the extraordinary plan of dividing the 

 major portion of the money received under the Local Taxation Act, 

 1890, among local authorities, on the basis of id. in the j£, of the 

 assessment to the county rate of the district concerned, was 

 adopted : — 



{a) That a sum not exceeding ^250 be granted to an Organis- 

 ing Joint Committee consisting of six members of this 

 Committee and six members of the Essex Field Club for 

 administration purposes, and the constitution of a centre 

 for the supply of lecturers and teachers, whose services 

 will be paid for by the Urban Authorities or Local Com- 

 mittees engaging them. 

 {b) That a sum not exceeding ^^500 be granted to the same 

 Joint Committee for the purchase of apparatus and dia- 

 grams, which are to be the property of the Council, and 

 that a sum not exceeding ^i^ioo be granted to the said 

 Committee for the storage and carriage of such apparatus 

 and diagrams. 

 {c) That a sum not exceeding ^50 be granted to the same Joint 

 Committee, to be expended in lectures under the direction 

 of the Essex Bee-keepers' Association. 

 {d) That Local Committees throughout the county, especially in 

 rural districts, be recommended to make application to the 

 said Joint Committee or the Essex Agricultural Society, for 

 aid in lecturers or teachers, obtaining apparatus and 

 materials, the conducting of examinatious, and seeking help 

 and guidance generally. 



