THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 87 



Mr. W. Cole, F.L.S., F.E.S., and Mr. B. G. Cole ; Librarians — vacant ; 

 Auditors — Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S., and Mr. J. D. Cooper. 



No other members having been proposed for any office, the above gentlemen 

 stood elected as Members of the Council and Officers for the year 1903, and were 

 so declared by the Chairman. 



Mr. John Spiller proposed that a cordial vote of thanks should be given to 

 their retiring President, Professor Meldola. They all most deeply sympathised 

 with him in his illness, and most sincerely hoped that it would soon pass away. 

 Mr. Meldola's services to the Club were fully known to most of those present ; in 

 his last annual address he had admirably summed up its history, and they all 

 regi'etted that no like inspiriting discourse had been possible from him that 

 evening. 



Mr. T. V. Holmes most cordially seconded the vote of thanks and message of 

 sympathy to the late President. 



With a few appreciative words from the President, the motion was agreed to 

 by acclammation. 



On the motion of Mr. Hugh McLachlan, a vote of thanks was passed to the 

 Officers and to the Auditors. 



Mr. Walter Crouch briefly responded, and the meeting ended. 



THE 22ist ORDINARY MEETING. 



Saturday, April 4TH, 1903. 



After the business of the Annual Meeting, an Ordinary Meeting (the 221st) 

 was held, Mr. F. W. Rudler, F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 



New Members. — At the Annual Meeting Mr. Walter Bevins, and Mr. F. W. 

 Rudler Cone of the Honorary Members of the Club) had been elected Ordinary 

 Members, and the fact is entered here for confirmation. 



President. — Mr. Rudler thanked the members for placing him in the 

 honourable position of President of the Club. He alluded to the high reputation 

 in which the Club was held, inasmuch as it was carrying on excellent local work ; it 

 might be looked upon as a model local natural history society. Mr. Rudler also 

 referred to the valuable work of the retiring President, Professor Meldola, in 

 relation to the Club, and hoped to receive the aid and encouragement of the 

 Council and Officers in carrying on the work during his term of office. 



Series of Flint Implements from the Thames Valley Gravels. — Mr. 

 A. S. Kennard exhibited a fine series of Flint Implements found in the Thames 

 Valley, and said that his object was to bring together examples of the work of 

 man from the age of the " Rock Shelters " back to the age of the Eoliths. Air. 

 Kennard' s remarks will be embodied in a short note, on " The relative age of 

 the Thames Valley Stone Implements." He also exhibited a flint arrow- 

 head from Forest Gate, which will be figured and described in the next part of 

 the Essex Naturalist. 



Museum Microscope. — Mr. Cole exhibited one of the Museum Microscopes 

 made by Messrs. W. Watson and Sons, which were intended for the exhibition of 

 minute organisms and biological and petrological specimens in the Museum. (See 

 •' Note " in a future part.) 



Stone Implements from the Laterite Deposits of India. — K set of 

 specimens from these deposits, presented to the Museum by Mr. \V. Seton-KaiT, 

 was exhibited. 



