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referred to Professor Boulger’s long connection with the Club, he being 
our second President, serving as long ago as 1883-1884, and our oldest 
surviving Vice-President. 1 
An adjournment for tea at a restaurant close to the Gardens was then 
made, and the Party separated, after a very enjoyable afternoon. 
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ORDINARY MEETING (542nd MEETING). 
SATURDAY, 25TH FEBRUARY, 1922 . 
This meeting was held as usual in the Municipal College, Romford 
Road, Stratford, at 3 o'clock on the above date, with the President, Mr. 
R. Paulson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., in the chair. 52 members were present. 
Mr. A. W. Mera, of 5, Park Villas, High Road, Loughton, was elected 
a member of the Club. 
The President referred to the recent election to the Presidency of the 
Quekett Microscopical Club of one of our members, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, 
and offered his congratulations to him for the warm reception he had re¬ 
ceived on that occasion. Mr. Scourfield thanked the President and the 
members present for their kind congratulations. 
In anticipation of the approaching annual meeting, nominations were 
made for new members of Council and Officers for the ensuing year. 
Notice was given by the Hon. Secretary, on behalf of the Council, of 
certain proposed alterations in thb Rules to be proposed to the Annual 
Meeting. 
Mr. J. Avery exhibited a special series of Essex prints, comprising some 
fifty etchings and drawings executed during the years 1817 to 1823 by an 
anonymous artist, under the initials “ M.S.” Some of the prints are well 
known to Essex collectors, but in consequence of others not being named 
they have escaped notice in the past. They have now been identified 
and the exhibit was probably the most complete collection relating to 
Essex by this unknown artist. 
The Curator exhibited a set-up Herring Gull and a Dunlin (skin), both 
from Low Street, Tilbury, which had been presented (in the flesh) to 
the Club’s Museum. 
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a Little Grebe from Felsted, which had 
been found by our member, Mr. J. H. Owen, in the river there, floating 
dead, with a Bull-head firmly fixed in its throat. This interesting speci¬ 
men had been presented to the Club’s Museum by Mr. Owen, and had 
been set-up in the Museum with a cast of the fish in its jaws, exactly as 
found. 
Mr. E. T. Newton exhibited, and presented to the Museum, the leg- 
bones of a small Deer, articulated for exhibition. 
Thanks were passed to the donors and exhibitors. 
The Hon. Secretary (in the author’s absence) read, in abstract, a paper 
by Mr. H. Whitehead, B.Sc., on “ The British Fresh-water Planarians 
(Tricladida) ” (printed in full, ante, p. 1). 
1 The unexpected announcement of the death of Professor Boulger on May 4th, at tne age 
of 69, came as a great shock to those who, although they had known him for so many years, had 
always thought of him as a vigorous man still in the prime of life. The President represented 
the Club at the funeral of our lamented Past President at Richmond, on May 9th. 
