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The Secretary said that he had received a letter from the City Solicitor, 

 stating that the Epping Forest Committee had referred the matter of the 

 plans for the refitting the Museum to Mr. Buxton and the Superintendent of 

 the Forest, to meet him (the Secretary) and make a final agreement. He 

 would in accordance with this request confer with Mr. McKenzie, and lay the 

 plans which had been accepted that afternoon before him, and report at 

 the next meeting. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Buxton for presiding at the meeting was proposed 

 by Mr. Walter Crouch, and seconded by Mr. W. Cole, who referred to the 

 great interest and support which Mr. Buxton had given to the idea of the 

 Museum and to the restoration of the Lodge for many years past. 



The vote was carried by acclamation, and in reply Mr. Buxton commended 

 the support of the Fund to their neighbours who would be benefitted by the 

 restored Lodge and the Museum. 



THE 199th ORDINARY MEETING. 



S.^TURDAY, December 15TH, 1900. 



This meeting was held at half-past six in the Physical Lecture Theatre of 

 the Institute, Mr. D. Howard, President, in the chair. 



The following were elected members of the Club : — Mr. Henry C. Norris 

 and Mr. Robert E. Seabrook. 



The President asked for an expression of opinion as to the most conveni- 

 ent hour for the winter scientific meetings, whether 6, 6.30 or 7 p.m. On 

 being put to the vote, 6.30 was chosen. In the future, therefore, there will 

 be the usual service of light refreshment in the Tea-room at 5.30, and the 

 Ordinary Meetings will commence at G.30 p.m. 



A pencil drawing of Old Bow Bridge, made just before its demolition, 

 was exhibited by Mr. Walter Crouch, which had been lent to him by his old 

 friend, the Rev. G. Townshend Duffield, Rector of Bow from 1844 to 1880, or 

 over 36 years, when he accepted another Brazenose living in Northampton- 

 shire. The drawing, of large folio size, was made for him by his nephew, 

 Mr. Duffield, now of Liverpool, and depicts the ancient structure from the 

 south-east bank of the River Lea on the Essex side. Mr. Crouch remarked 

 that it was certainly the best view of the Bridge he had ever seen ; and shows 

 well the massive starlings and buttresses, with the iron stanchions which had 

 been inserted to keep the Bridge from bulging, and also to strengthen the 

 north side which had to bear the thrust-strain of a wooden footway which 

 was in part supported by cantalivers of wood fixed on the starlings on that 

 side. 



The river-side of the " Bombay Grab " is well shown, a quaint old inn on 

 the Middlesex b i ik with a tier of three large bay windows. This house was 

 pulled down when the New Granite Bridge of one span (which cost ;^i2,ooo) 

 was erected under Sir John Rennie in 1837-39, during which period the traffic 

 was served by a temporary wooden bridge constructed in 1S35. 



