Ixviii Journal of P ror^ffb'.uff.t . 



Saturday, October 29th, 18S1. — Ordinary Meeting. 



The 21st Ordinary Meeting was lield at the Head-quarters at seven 

 o'clock, the President in the Chair. 



Donations of books or pamphlets were announced from Messrs. E. 

 Brown, S. N. Carvalho, B. O. Cole, E. Meldola, and Miss M. S. Ridley. 

 Various specimens for the Museum were contributed by Messrs. English, 

 Travis, White, and E. M. Holmes, F.L.S. A unanimous vote of thanks 

 to the donors was passed. 



The following persons were balloted for and elected members of the 

 Club :— Lord Eustace Cecil, M.P., Sir H. J. Selwin-Ibbetson, Bart., M.P., 

 Miss Marian Ridley, and Edward Unwin. 



The President announced that at the York Meeting of the British 

 Association, the Report on the Excavations at Ambresbury Banks had 

 been read, and that subsequently the Secretary had received the following 

 communication from Prof. Bonney : — 



" British Association for the Advancement of Science, 



" 22, Albemarle Street, W., 



" 13th October, 1881. 

 " Sir, 



" I am directed by the General Committee of the British Asso- 

 ciation for the Advancement of Science, to transmit to you the following 

 Copy of a Resolution, which was adopted by the Committee at the last 

 Meeting of the Association, and to request your attention thereto : — 



" TMt Mr. R. Meldola, General Pitt-Rivers, and Mr. Wm. Cole, he a 

 Committee, for the purpose of investigating the ancient earthwork in 

 Epping Forest, known as Loughton Camp; and that Mr. W. Cole be 

 the Secretary. 



" I have the honour to be, 



"Your very obedient Servant, 



" T. G. BONNEY, Secretary. 

 " To W. Cole, Esq." 



He thought that the Club might be congratulated on receiving this 

 recognition of its work at the hands of such an influential body as the 

 British Association, and he hoped it would prove an incentive to the 

 members to support the Society in the course of action it had struck out 



for itself. 



Three communications stood for discussion upon the Agenda paper ; 

 Mr. Fitch asked permission to take his essay first as he had to return to 

 Maldon that evening. The paper, entitled "The Galls of Essex," 

 [Transactions, ii. 98] , was then read by the author. Mr. Fitch illus- 

 trated his memoir during its delivery by the exhibition of various coloured 

 plates contained in Dr. Adler's essay and other German publications, and 

 by references to his own extensive collection of galls and gall-making 

 insects, with their inquilines and parasites, which he had brought with 

 him, and which was on view in one of the meeting rooms. 



