THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. -ig5 



Mr. John Spiller, F.C.S., also spoke on the same subject. 



The President called attention to the interesting fact that on the loth of 

 January next the Club would attain its majority, having been founded on that 

 day in 1880, and he hoped that the occasion would be marked in some special 

 way, at any rate during the coming year. 



The remainder of the evening was occupied in examining the numerous 

 specimens displayed on the tables in the room. 



OPENING OF THE ESSEX MUSEUM OF NATURAL 



HISTORY. 



Thursday, October i8th, 1900. 



On this afternoon the opening ceremony took place. A full report 

 appears as a separate article in the present part. 



THE 197TH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Saturday, October 27TH, 1900. 



This meeting was held in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the Municipal 

 Technical Institute, Romford Road, Stratford, Essex, at half-past six o'clock, 

 Mr. William Whitaker, F.R.S., F.G.S.. in the chair. 



[This was the resumption of the meetings in the Institute after the 

 disastrous fire on October 23rd, 1899. The Council and Officers have 

 pleasure in acknowledging the continued kindness in this connection of the 

 Technical Instruction Committee of the Borough of West Ham, and of the 

 Principal of the Institute, Mr. A. E. Briscoe, B.Sc. The great value and 

 convenience of such a well-appointed assembly-place in immediate connection 

 with the Museum and Library was acknowledged by all present. The Head- 

 quarters and Library were open during the afternoon and evening after many 

 years interval, since their removal from the old quarters at Buckhurst Hill.] 



Mr. F. C. Clarke was elected a member of the Club. 



Mr. D. J. Scourfield, F.R.M.S., exhibited an extraordinary mass of the 

 Statoblasts of Cristutella from a pond in Epping Forest. He also displayed 

 one of the statoblasts under the microscope. Mr. Scourfield said that 

 although the statoblasts of Cristalla were fairly common in the forest pools, it 

 was rarely that a mass such as that shown was found. 



Mr. Oldham exhibited a curious sport of the garden Scabtus, in which the 

 corollas of all the compound flowers had reverted to green leaves. 



Mr. J. P. Johnson brought up specimens of the teeth, &c. , of some of the 

 small vertebrate animals and associated Paljeolithic "flakes" from the pits 

 at Grays Thurrock, mentioned in the paper subsequently read by Messrs. 

 Hinton and Kennard. 



