30 THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



Other Members of Council. — John Avery, C.A., Rev. R. E. Bartlett, 

 M.A. ; C. E. Benham ; Horace T. Brown, F.R.S. ; E. N. Buxton, J. P., 

 Aldmn. C.C, D.L., &c. ; Miller Christy, F.L.S. ; Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. ; 

 Bryan Corcoran ; L. Cranmer-Byng ; E. Diirrant : F: W. Elliott ; A. J. 

 Furbank ; I. Chalkley Gould ; J. E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. ; Rev. W. S. 

 Lach-Szyrma, M.A. ; J. H. Porter ; Rev. A. F. Russell, MA. ■ J. C. Shen- 

 stone; John Spiller, F.I.C., F.C.S. ; F. H. Varley, F.R.A.S. ; George E. 

 Vaughau ; T. Hay Wilson. 



Hon. Treasurer.— W. C. Waller, M.A., F.S.A. 



Hon. Secretary and Curator.- -William Cole, F.L.S., F.E.S. ; Assist. 

 Hon. Secretary. — B. G. Cole. 



Hon. Librarians. — .\lfred Lockyer and W. C. Waller. 



Hon. Counsel. — W. C. Dare, r>.-\., I5arrister-at-La\v ; Hon. Solicitor. — 

 H. I. Coburn.] 



The President then delivered his Annual Address, entitled " Life 

 Problems in Modern Science," an abstract of which is printed in the present 

 part of the Essex Naturalist (see pp. 15-17). 



Professor Meldola, while guarding himself from endorsing all the con- 

 clusions in Mr. Howard's address, proposed that the most cordial thanks of 

 the Club be accorded to Mr. Howard for his services as President during the 

 past official year. 



Mr. F. W. Elliott seconded the motion, which on being put to the meet- 

 ing was carried unanimously amid applause. 



Mr. Howard briefly returned thanks. 



The i86th Ordinary Meeting was then held, the President in the chair. 



A lecture was delivered by Mr. Fred. Enock, F. L.S., F.E.S., on "The 

 Life History of the Tiger-Bsstle {Cicindela campestris)." 



Mr. Enock's address was more than a mere lecture — it was a graphic 

 record of a series of observations, some entirely new, dealing with the whole 

 life-habits and metamorphosis of this interesting beetle (the larva of which, 

 from its mode of capturmg it prey, has been called the " British Ant-lion ") 

 and abundantly demonstrated the great interest attaching to the close study 

 of a common insect which may be observed in Epping Forest, and on sandy 

 heaths in Essex and around London. The Lecturer's observations were 

 illustrated by an admirable series of coloured lantern slides, made from his 

 own inimitable drawings " from life," several of which by ingenious contriv- 

 ances were moved so as to give an appearance of life to the pictures. 



Mr. Enock was heartily thanked for his lecture, on the proposal of the 

 President, seconded by Professor Meldola — and some discussion took place on 

 the habits and metamorphosis of the common House-fly, and on the import- 

 ance and interest of the study of living insects in the field. Mr. Meldola 

 alluded to the efforts made by Professor Miall to encourage this branch of 

 biological stady. ' 



Mr. Enock briefly replied, an 1 the mseting ended with the usual 

 Conversazione. 



I Sje l-'iofjssor MiiiU's .\ddi-ess to St;jtion D (Zoology) of the British Association at 

 Toronto on August 19th, 1897 (B.it. Ass. Rjp. iSj/, pp. 6,')/-6Sj) ahd also his remarks made 

 before the (Jorrjsponding Societies Committee a; tnj ^ji.na pla^e (Report, 1S97, pp. 29-32.)— Ed. 



