THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB, 29 



THE NINETEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 



AND 186TH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Saturday, March 25TH, 1899. 



The 19th Annual Meeting was held in the Physical Lecture Theatre in 

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

 the President, Mr. David Howard, F.C.S., in the chair. 



The minutes of the i8th Annual Meeting held on March 26th, 1898, 

 and printed in the Essex Naturalist, vol. x., pp. 256-258, were read and 

 confirmed. 



The Treasurer, Mr. W. C. Waller, read a summary of the Treasurer's 

 Statement of Accounts for 1898. It was announced that the Council had 

 decided to leave the form of the balance sheet to be decided upon by a small 

 Committee, and the meeting agreed to this, and that the revised statement 

 should be printed in the Essex Naturalist. 



The Report ot the Council for the year 1S98 was read by the Secretary 

 (see pp. 18-24). 



The Statement and Report were received and adopted. 



•At the meeting on February 25th, 1899, it was announced that the follow- 

 ing members retired from the Council in accordance with the Rules:— Mr. 

 C. E. Benham ; Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. ; Mr. E. Durrant {on vacating 

 office as Librarian) ; Mr. F. W. Elliott, and Mr. Chaliiley Gould. 



And at the same meeting the abo\'e-named members were duly proposed 

 for Election into the Council. 



Mr. Alfred Lockyer on being nominated as one of the Eibrarians, also 

 vacated his seat on the Council, his place being taken, as above indicated, by 

 Mr. E. Durrant. 



As Officers for 1S99 the following were nominated: — 



As President, Mr. David Howard, J. P., F.C.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. W. C. 

 Waller, M.A., F S.A. ; Hon. Secretary and Curator, Mr. W. Cole, F.L.S,, 

 F.E.S. ; Assistant-Hon. Secretary, Mr. B. G. Cole; Librarians, Mr. Alfred 

 Lockyer and Mr. W. C. Waller, M..\., F.S.A. ; Hon. Counsel, Mr. W. C. Dare, 

 B.A., Barrister-at-Law ; Hon. Solicitor, Mr. H. I. Coburn. 



Ks Auditor {for Council), Mr. Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. ; {for Members), Mr. 

 J. D. Cooper. 



No other members having been proposed, the above gentlemen stood 

 elected by Rule VII. as members of the Council and Officers for the year 

 1899 and were so declared by the Chairman. 



[The following therefore constitute the Officers and Council for 1S99: — 



Patron. — H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G. 

 President. — David Howard, J. P., F.C.S., F.I.C. 



Permanent Vice-Presidents. — {Under Rule H^.) — Prof. R. Meldola, 

 F.R.S., F.R.A.S., &c., {President 1880-82) ; Prof. G. S. Boulger, F.L.S. , 

 F.G.S. {President 1883-84) ; T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., M.A.I. {President 

 1885-87) ; E. A. Fitch, F.L.S., F.E.S. {President, 1888-91) ; Dr. Henry Laver, 

 F.L.S., F.S.A. {President 1892) ; Frederic Chancellor, J. P., F.R.I.B.A. 

 [President 1893-94). 



