Journal of Proceedings. Ixvii 



Saturday, January 22Nd, i88i. — Ordinary and Annual Meetings 



In accordance with notice sent to all members, the Annual General 

 Meeting was held at the Head Quarters, the President in the chair. 



Previous to the Annual Meeting an Ordinary Meeting took place, 

 when the following were elected members of the Club : — Mrs. Barnes, 

 Rev. W. J. Bolton, M.A., Edward Brooke, J.P., D.L., &c., Lieut. -Col. 

 Russell, J. P., D.L., &c., Samuel Smith, Frederick Stewart, J. G. 

 Thomasin, Mrs. Thomasin, Rev. W. J. Wright, B.A. 



The following books and magazines were presented to the library : — 

 Gerarde's " Herball, or General Historie of Plantes," presented by Mr. 

 J. Hutchison ; " Midland Naturalist " (monthly), by Mr. A. Lockyer ; 

 "Naturalist" (monthly), by Mr. G. H. Lockyer; "American Ento- 

 mologist " (monthly), by Mr. F. T. Lock3^er ; " Flora of Essex County 

 Mass." and " Notes on Woody Plants of Essex County Mass.," by the 

 author, Mr. J. Robinson ; Moffat's " Insectorum sive Minimorum 

 Animalium Theatrum," &c., 1634, by Mr. B. G. Cole; "Nature" 

 (weekly) ; "The Cobham Journals," and "Synopsis Plantarum insulis 

 Britannicis, &c.," by Mr. W. Cole. By exchange :—" The Proceedings 

 of the Boston Society of Natural History," Vol. XX., Parts i, 2, and 3; 

 and " Report of South London Entomological Society for 1880." 



It was also announced that the Rev. F. A. Walker, B.D., F.L.S., 

 had presented to the Club his Collections of Birds, Birds'-eggs, and 

 Insects, formed during the preparation of his " History of Dry .Drayton, 

 London, 187G." 



The thanks of the Society were unanimously voted for the above 

 valuable donations. 



The Secretary read a letter he had received from Mr. J. Eliot 

 Howard, F.R.S., suggesting that the needs of insectivorous birds should 

 be provided for during the hard weather by hanging a netted bag full 

 of scraps of meat, suet, &c., from the bough of a tree or bush in some 

 convenient place. Mr. Robarts remarked that he had adopted Mr. 

 Howard's suggestion ; the plan answered well, and the lively habits of 

 the hungry little visitors afforded much pleasure. 



The President said the Society was probably aware that the Council 

 had passed a resolution as follows ; that it had appeared in most of the 

 influential London and county newspapers, and that the scheme of 

 destruction was almost unanimously denounced by those whose 

 opinion was entitled to weight. He read the resolution passed at the 

 Meeting of the Council on January 8th : — 



"That the Council of this Society, on behalf of the large section of 

 the population of London interested in the pursuit of Natural History, 

 desires to record an emphatic protest against the proposal of the Great 

 Eastern Railway Company to carry a line across Epping Forest 



