26o THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



THE TWO HUNDRED AND ELEVENTH 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Saturday, March 22nd, igo2. 



Previous to the Annual Meeting an Ordinary Meeting was held, the 

 President in the chair, for the purpose of proposing some candidates for 

 membership, &c. 



Mr. Reader exhibited and explained some models of the mode of hafting 

 Flint Implements which he had had prepared for the Museum, and also 

 exhibited two burnishers from Clerkenwell, to show that the use of Stone 

 Implements still obtained in Pome trades. A description of these models will 

 form the subject of a future " Museum Note." 



He also exhibited photographs of a prehistoric mine in Chili, and a model 

 of the mode of hafting blocks of limestone in that mine so as to be serviceable 

 as hammers 



Remarks were made by Professor Boulger and Mr. D. Howard on the 

 chemical composition of prehistoric bronze implements. 



Thanks were voted to Mr. Reader for his interesting exhibitions. The 

 Annual Meeting followed. 



THE TWENTY-SECOND ANNUAL GENERAL 



MEETING. 



Saturday, March 22ND, igo2. 



The 22nd Annual Meeting was then held, Prof. Meldola, F.R.S., President, 

 in the chair. 



The minutes of the Annual Meeting, held on March 30th i9oi,and printed 

 in the Essex Naturalist, vol. xii., pp. 48-49, were read and confirmed. 



The Treasurer, Mr. David Howard, F.C.S., read the summary of the 

 Treasurer's statement of Account for 1901 which had been duly signed by the 

 Auditors, Messrs. Walter Crouch and J. D. Cooper. This statement was 

 received and adopted by the meeting. 



The Secretary read the Annual Report of the Council for the year 1901 

 This was received and adopted. 



At the Meeting on February 22nd last, the following members retired 

 from the Council by the Rules: — Messrs. J. Avery, L Cranmer-Byng, A. J. 

 Furbank, G. E. Vaughan, and the Rev. R. E. Bartlett ; Messrs. Avery and 

 Vaughan submitting themselves for re-election. There are also two vacancies 

 remaining over from former years. 



At the same meeting the following were duly proposed ; — Mr. J. Avery, 

 Mr. Percy Clark, B.A., Mr. Primrose McConnell, B.Sc, F.G.S., Mr. Hugh 

 H. Mason, F.R.C.S., L.S.A., C.C, Mr. G. E. Vaughan, and Mr. C. B. 

 Russell, M.A., J. P., C.C, has since been nominated. 



As Officers the following were nominated : — 



President— Proi. R. Meldola, F.R.S., F.C.S., F.E.S. ; Tyeasurci-— Mr. David 

 Howard, J. P., F.C.S. ; Hon. Secretaries— 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. 



