EEPOUT OF THE COUNCIL 

 FOR THE YEAR 1884. 



It is witli mucli plensuro that tho Council, in presenting tlieir 

 Report, congratulate the Members on the satisfactory condition of 

 the Association. 



Lectures have l)een ilelivereil at each of the ordinary Evening 

 Meetings, and the attendanc(>. of ^tlemhers and their friends has 

 been fairly good. 



The Suh-Comniittee whicli was formed for the purpose of 

 organising a systematic search for evidence of Pre-historic ^lan in 

 tlie Valley of the Eavensbourne, is still actively employed, Tmt as 

 yet nothing lias been discovered to reward their exertions. 



The Rev. Brooke Lambert, as a delegate from this Association, 

 attended the ]\Ieeting of the British Association at Montreal. 



The Essex Field Club having commenced their ExploraticJii of 

 the Deneholes at Hangman's Wood, near Grays, the £5 granted 

 by the Association in aid of the work, has been paid to their 

 account by the Treasurer. 



The Members of the Council have also to report, with sincere 

 regret, the loss that they, individually, and the Association at large, 

 have .sustained by the death of their colleague, Mr. Franz Goedecker. 

 One of the earliest Members of the Association, he was also (me of 

 its most zealous supporters ; and, by his influence and energy, he 

 contributed greatly to its successful establishment. It will be 

 within the recollection of the Members that he was a constant 

 attendant at the Meetings, and more than once exhibited before 

 them specimens of his remarkable artistic talent. His position as 

 Secretary for Art to the German Athenteum indicates the estimation 

 in which he was held by his fellow countrymen and fellow 

 labourers. On a brief visit to the Continent, he succumbed to an 

 attack of heart disease, which prematurely closed a career of high 

 promise, to the great grief of those Avho best knew the amiable 

 qualities he possessed/ 



