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him personally, liis friends were unanimous in testifying to 

 liis amiable disposition ; and we cannot but express our 

 sorrow at having lost a promising member who, had he been 

 spared, would doubtless have taken an active part in the 

 work of the Club. 



At the meeting held on December 17tli it was my painful 

 duty to have to announce the death of Sir Antonio Brady ; 

 and as it is proposed to publish a special memoir of our 

 deceased member, whose memory is still green among us, 

 I will not at present give any account of his scientific work, 

 but will simply put upon record the deep regret which the 

 removal of this genial elephant-hunter of the Koding Valley 

 has caused to all those who numbered him among their 

 friends, and whose death will be felt most severely by our 

 Club, in which he took such active interest, as well as by the 

 scientific world in general. 



The Essex Field Club is now so well launched on its 

 career that I do not propose to dwell at any length upon our 

 past or future work. My appeal to our own members to support 

 us by their scientific contributions has, I am happy to see, 

 borne fruit. During the year we have published three Parts 

 of 'Transactions,' with the 'Journal of Proceedings,' and to 

 these we may, I think, justly point with some pride, as 

 evidence of our activity and as a guarantee of future exertion. 

 Looking back to the line of work as laid down in my 

 Inaugural Address of February 28th, 1880, I cannot but feel 

 gratified to think in how short a period we have commenced 

 to realise the position therein traced out. We have received 

 this year several most valuable contributions to the lists of 

 the County Fauna and Flora, and in the next part "of our 

 * Transactions ' we shall have the pleasure of seeing Mr. 

 Henry Laver's lists of the Mammalia and Mollusca, Mr. 

 Fitch's excellent paper upon the Essex Galls, and Dr. M. C. 

 Cooke's list of the Hymenomycetal Fungi of the Loughton 

 District. The papers published during the year are, if I may 

 say so, typical of the class of subjects which our Society 

 claimed at the outset as proper to the studies of a Field Club. 

 Thus in Natural History we have Mr. White's suggestive 



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