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ANNUAL REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 

 THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31st, 1901. 



[Read and adopted at the 22nd Annual Meeting on March 22nd, i9>J2.] 



But a few paragraphs will suffice for a record of the Club's year. The 

 work, both in connection, with the Society itself and the Museums, has been 

 mainly of a routine nature, although the Council venture to submit that the 

 scientific credit of the Club has suffered no diminution. 



Financial. — The following is Mr. Howard's report:-" The financial 

 position of the Club is on the whole sound, and, as will be seen from the 

 Statement of Account, the adverse balance is diminished to £5 5s. 6d., but 

 this result has only been obtained by the most strenuous economy. There is 

 an urgent need for an increased roll of members to provide the funds so 

 desirable for the Club's work. 



There is also still a great need of funds to enable the Curator to bring 

 the museums up to the right standard of completeness. The case of the 

 Forest Museum is specially urgent, and at the Essex Museum there are nr> 

 funds available to purchase the specimens required to complete the collections 

 and do other most important work." 



Membership Roll. — The Club has, unfortunately, lost several members 

 by death and removal from the County, and this has tended to reduce the 

 roll, in spite of election of many new Members. As far as can be estimated at 

 present, ther"; are 264 Ordinary Members, Exempt Members 4 and Honorary 

 Members 16, making a total of 284, four less than at the date of the last 

 Annual Report. 



Meetings.- -Eleven meetings were held within the year, the November 

 meeting having been transferred to 1902 in consequence of the usual date 

 being that of an important scientific fixture in London. In addition to the 

 papers read we have had the benefit of several important lectures and 

 addresses by scientific men, and the Council wish to record the cordial thanks 

 of the Club to the following gentlemen : -to Prof. G. B. Howes, F.R.S., who 

 gave an address at the meeting on Feb. 23rd on " Recent Work on Molluscan 

 Morphology" ; to Mr. E. Sanger Shepherd who on March 30th gave a most 

 interesting and well-illustrated lecture on his process for producing photo- 

 graphs in natural colours, to Mr. E. M. Holmes, F.L.S., to Prof. J. B. 

 Farmer, F.R.S., and Prof. H. Marshall Ward for assistance at the meeting 

 for inspection of the Forest on May i8th. On this occasion we had antici- 

 pated the benefit of the two verderers, Sir T. Fowell Buxton and Mr. E. N. 

 Buxton, but the alarming accident to the former just before the meeting 

 prevented this. It was with great relief that all present heard that no serious 

 consequences ensued. 



We have again to thank the Countess of Warwick for kind hospitality at 

 Bigods on the occasion of the visit of the Club on June 6th, and also Mr. and 

 Mrs. Henessy for their courtesy at this meeting. At the meeting on Canvey 

 Island on June 15th we had the great benefit of the leaderships of Dr. Murie 

 and Prof. Boulger On June 29th the Club was the recipient of much kind- 

 ness and hospitality at the hands of Mr. and Mrs. Sharrock at the Reservoir 



