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interesting address on " Colour in Nature." The Council was also much indebted 

 to Mr. Charles H. Read, F.S.A., Keeper of the Department of British and 

 Mediaeval Antiquities at the British Museum, for the address on " Local 

 Archaeological Investigation," which he gave at the meeting in January. At the 

 following meeting, on February 22nd, Professor E, B. Poulton, F.R.S., the 

 Hope Professor of Zoology, University of Oxford, delighted the audience with a 

 lecture (most beautifully illustrated by photographs in colour) on " Protective 

 Resemblance, Warning Colours, and ]Mimicry," and on this occasion the 

 Club had the benefit of some remarks on " Mimicry " from Professor Meldola. 

 At the jSIarch meeting ^Slr. Frank P. Smith spoke of" Spiders and their Ways," 

 preparatory to a series of papers he is writing for our journal on the " Spiders of 

 Epping Forest." The " Fungus Foray " on October 17th and i8th, was like so 

 many outdoor meetings in 1902, somewhat shorn of the usual goodly company by 

 more than doubtful weather, but scientifically it was not a whit behind its fore- 

 runners, inasmuch as no less than 134 species were gathered and determined by 

 Dr. Cooke and Mr. Massee, of which 18 were new to the Forest Flora. On this 

 occasion also the Club had the assistance of Mr. Arthur Lister, F.R.S. 

 At the meeting on December 6th ^Ir. Edward R. Turner gave an excellent 

 demonstration of the Lumiere process of Tri-Colour Photography and its applica- 

 tion to Natural History work. 



At some of the meetings the kind assistance of the following gentlemen, 

 acting as " Conductors," was highly appreciated : Mr. J. Chalkley Gould, Mr. 

 Primrose McConnell, Mr. E. N. Buxton, Mr. W. H. Dalton, Mr. T. V. Holmes, 

 Mr. J. E. Greenhill, Mr. Miller Christy, Rev. C. Boutflower, and Mr. Frank 

 Smith. 



The Council have pleasure in again recording the best thanks of the Club to 

 the Technical Instruction Committee of the West Ham Corporation, and to the 

 Principal, Mr. Briscoe, for the use of the meeting-room and for other facilities. 



The Essex Naturalist. — With the view of securing more regularity in 

 the publication of our journal the Council have accepted the estimate of Messrs. 

 Benham and Co., of Colchester, for the printing. It is confidently anticipated 

 that Math the new year, the parts will appear quarterly, viz., on or about the 

 20th of April, July, October, and January, in each year. The price of the parts 

 to non-members will in future be uniformly 5s., so that the best way to obtain the 

 Essex Naturalist will be to join the Club. Two parts comprising 216 pages 

 with several plates, and Title and Index to Vol. XL, were published in the year. 

 The Council asks for the aid of the members and friends of the Club to the Editor 

 so that he may be enabled to produce the journal as a regular quarterly 

 publication. It is manifest that he is entirely in the hands of contributors so far 

 as regards original papers ; a supply of Notes and Short Papers likely to interest 

 zoologists, botanists, geologists, and students of pre-historic archceology, etc., in 

 the Eastern Counties, and the East and North of l^ondon, would be of the 

 greatest value in connection with the journal and would markedly tend to increase 

 the interest of members in the work of the Club. 



Essex Museum of Natural History. — The central museum has 

 benefited by several donations within the year, the most remarkable having been 

 the gift by our member, Mr. T. Horace Brown, F.R.S. , of the whole of his 

 extensive and valuable collection of fossils and rock specimens, together with a 

 small type collection of mollusca. This donation was made by Mr. Brown and 

 gratefully accepted by the Council to aid in the building up of the educational 



