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work, and also for his speech on the method of arrangement. It occurred 
to me that it would be a good plan to have a little statement of like nature 
before tea. This would save time in laying out, and would be instructive 
to the uninitiated.” 
Cordial votes of thanks were passed to all those who had aided during 
the day, and in the arrangements, and in Mr. Pearson’s words, “ A 
most enjoyable day was spent, the weather having been perfect from the 
pointof view of the ordinary person, if not from the more specialised stand¬ 
point of the mycologist.” 
THE 441st MEETING 
Saturday, 31ST October 1914. 
The first meeting of the Winter Session was held at G o’clock in the 
Physical Lecture Theatre of the Technical Institute, Stratford, Mr. S. 
Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in the chair. 
It was announced with great regret that the Club had lost three dis¬ 
tinguished members:—The Rev. W. C. Howell, M.A., who had been a 
member since 1884, C donel Bryan, C.E. (a Life Member), and Mr. Leonard 
V. Dalton, B.Sc., F.G.S. 
The Secretary was requested to convey to the relatives of these deceased 
members expressions of deep and sincere sympathy. 
Manifesto concerning the attitude of German Scientific Men 
and the War. —Professor Meldola, D.Sc., F.R.S., at the Council Meeting 
that afternoon, had drawn attention to the important declaration of 
protest against the views of certain German scientific men on the War, 
signed by a large number of English scientific men and literary scholars, 
which had appeared in the Times of 31st October 1914. Professor 
Meldola suggested that the Club should unite, as an English Scientific 
Association, in expressing similar views. The President said that the 
Council of the Club had that day unanimously agreed to the terms 
of a resolution which he now placed before members for adoption. It was 
as follows :— 
Resolved :—That the President, Officers and Council, and members 
of the Essex Field Club, present at their meeting on 31st October 1914, 
desire to associate themselves with the statements and opinions set forth 
by certain scholars and public men in their manifesto published in the 
Times of 21st October 1914, and that publicity be given to the resolution 
On being put to the meeting (after the Declaration of Protest had 
been read) this resolution was unanimously endorsed, and it was also 
agreed that copies of the same should be sent to Dr Murray (who had 
drawn up the Protest) and to the public press. 
Mr. Percy G. H. Boswell, B.Sc., F.G.S., read a paper entitled “ The 
Evolution of the Essex Stour.” The following is a short syllabus of the 
contents of the paper :— 
Introduction.—Development and life history of a river.—The form 
of the Stour river system and evidences of “ capture ”—The Geological 
succession exposed in the Valley, and the relation of the valley in point 
