250 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Zoology, Royal 



College of Science. 

 Prof. E. Ray Lankester, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c., Director of 



the British Museum of Natural History. 

 C. H. Read, Esq., F.S. A., Keeper of the British and Mediaval Antiquities 



British Museum. 

 Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., LL.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., &c , 



Director of the Roydl Gardens, Kew. 

 Prof. H. Marshall Ward, D.Sc, F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany. 



University of Cambridge. 

 H. B. Woodward, Esq., F.R.S., F.G.S., Geological Museum, Jermyn 



Street. 



[N.B. — All the above gentlemen were elected at the Annual Meeting on 

 March 22nd, 1902.] 



THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



THE 208th ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Saturday, January 25TH, 1902. 



The 2o8th Ordinary Meeting was held at half-past six o'clock in the 

 Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal Technical Institute, Stratford, the 

 President, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., in the chair. 



Mr. Frank Woolnough, Curator of the Museum, Ipsivich, was elected a 

 member of the Club. 



At the commencement of the proceedings, Mr. Cole said that the members 

 would lament the death of Lord Rookwood, one of the Life Members of the 

 Club, and a gentleman who had earned the esteem and gratitude of all 

 interested in the county of Essex. Before he became a peer, as Sir Henry 

 Selwin-Ibbetson he was largely concerned in the rescue of Epping Forest, 

 and he piloted the Epping Forest Act through Parliament. Later, he aided 

 the Club in defeating encroachments on the Forest by railway and tramway 

 companies. In many movements made for the benefit of the county, Lord 

 Rookwood took a leading part, and his loss would be long regretted. He died 

 in London January 15th, 1902 in the 77th year of his age. Mr. Cole concluded 

 by moving that he should be empowered to send a letter of condolence in the 

 name of the Club to Lady Rookwood on the death of her distinguished 

 husband. 



This was seconded by the President, who cordially supported the tribute 

 of esteem put forward, and the resolution was carried unanimously. 



Mr. T. V. Holmes, F.G.S. exhibited a drawing of an old wooden water- 

 pipe, found in making excavations in Wigmore Street, London, and made some 

 remarks on these disused methods of conveying water. He thought that 

 ancient contrivances of the kind were worth recording, inasmuch as they were 

 so soon wholly forgotten. 



