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looked upon as belonging to this category. I find also that I 

 have myself contributed on some occasions to this kind of work. 



In yet another direction has the Club been enabled to 

 assist in the work of education. The Technical Instruction 

 movement set going under the Acts of 1889 and iSgo led the 

 Council of the Club to come forward in 1890 with a scheme 

 which was submitted to the Essex County Council (Essex 

 Nati'ralist IV., 259) and supported by a deputation invited to 

 wait upon the Technical Instruction Committee on Feb. 2nd, 

 i8gi {Ibid. V., 34). The deputation comprised, among others, 

 our Hon. Members, Sir Henry Roscoe, one of the chief promo- 

 ters in Parliament of the, Acts in question, and Sir William 

 Flower. The final outcome of our application was the co-opting 

 of six representatives of the Club as Members of the Technical 

 Instruction Committee, the gentlemen proposed and accepted 

 being Sir Henry Roscoe, Mr. G. J. Symons, Mr. F. ChanceUor, 

 Mr. J. C. Shenstone, Mr. John Spiller and myself. The later 

 history of our connection with technical education in Essex was 

 related by Mr. Chancellor in his presidential address for 1895 

 [Ibid. IX., 30), and to this I must refer you for details. It would 

 not be fitting for me to attempt to weigh our utility or to form 

 any estimate of our services to our colleagues of the Technical 

 Instruction Committee. It was extremely difficult for us in the 

 first stages of the movement to find men with the necessary educa- 

 tional qualifications and willing to give their time to the very 

 exacting duties associated with the launch of a scheme so totally 

 new to the people of this country. Changes in the Club's repre- 

 sentation have been made from time to time, but of the original 

 list Mr. Chancellor, Mr. Shenstone, Mr. Spiller and myself still 

 remain as members of the Committee. If I may for once 

 venture upon a personal statement I should like to place upon 

 record my own sense of obligation to the Technical Instruction 

 Committee for having given me the opportunity of studying the 

 practical working of the Acts in Essex during the last decade. 



VII.— MUSEUM WORK. 

 The idea of having a museum associated with the Club has, 

 as you are aware, been present from the beginning of our exist- 

 ence. "The formation of a Museum" was contemplated in the 

 original Rules and its general scope defined in my " Inaugural 

 Address" {Trans. I., 12 — 13). The nature of the contents of 



