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The Epping Forest Museum.— Referring to the lengthy statement in the 

 last Annual Report, the Council regret that scarcely any progress has yet been 

 made by the Epping Forest Committee of the Corporation of London with 

 regard to the repair of Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, and the allotment of further 

 space for the purposes of the Museum. Several meetings of the Committee 

 have been held, but nothing has yet been settled. It would be useless 

 adding more at the present stage. The Council sincerely hope that before the 

 next Annual Meeting a satisfactory arrangement may be arrived at.' The 

 Museum under the care of the Hon. Curator, continues to be largely attended, 

 and very many of the visitors take great interest in it. A number of Schools 

 and Natural History Clubs have visited it during the year, and on some of 

 these occasions the Curator has attended to give a short exposition of por- 

 tions of the contents. 



A full report on the state of the Museum, and the plans for its extension 

 and improvement, is reserved for a paper to be read by the Curator at a future 

 meeting. 



F'resident. — The Council have much pleasure in again proposing Mr. 

 Howard for re-election as President, in the hope that during his coming term of 

 office he may take part in the opening of the New Museum and Head Quarters 

 of the Club, the acquisition of which he has done so much to promote. 



I We are very glad to state that, at a meeting of the Common Cmincil of the City of London 

 held at the Guildhall, on .^pril 27th, a report from the Epping Forest Committee recommending 

 the repairs of the Queen Elizabeth's Lodge and the re-conversion of the rooms on the first floor 

 into one large room, was received and adopted, and a simi of £500 was voted towards the 

 expense of such repairs. This matter is set out more fully on another page in the present part 

 of the E.N. Editor. 



THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



THE 18 4TH ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Saturday, January 28th, 1899. 



THE 184th Ordinary Meeting was held in the Physical Theatre of the 

 Municipal Technical Institute, Romford Road, Stratford, at 6.30 p m , 

 Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., V.P., in the chair. 



Mr. F. W. Reader was elected a member of the Club. 



Mr. Cecil Schwartz exhibited several specimens under the microscope 

 and preserved in fluid. Among them were Coccidiuin ovi/oriiie.a. Gregarine from 

 the liver of a rabbit, the specimen showing the process of transformation into 

 egg-shaped zoosperms by the formation of a capsule and the production of 

 several spheres from its granular contents. 



Also Sagitta cephaloptera, one of the Chsetognatha group of the Nematoda, 

 from surface-net gatherings in the Crouch River, Essex. One of the three 

 specimens shown contained a very large Nematode nearly half the size of the 

 Sagitta. 



Also young (Zo3p) larvae of Crustacea from surface-net gatherings, Crouch 

 River. 



