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was a pupil. Before taking leave Mr. Percy Thompson, in the name 
of the party, expressed grateful thanks to the Rev. Mother Superior for 
the privilege of inspection accorded. 
Returning to the Central Library in the High Street, tea was served 
shortly after 5 o’clock, following which the Chairman of the District Coun¬ 
cil, Councillor W. J. McGuffie, J.P., welcomed the visitors to Waltham¬ 
stow in a short speech. 
Mr. Paulson, on behalf of the Essex Field Club, and Dr. W. Martin 
on behalf of the Gilbert White Fellowship, expressed the thanks of the 
visitors to the District Council for its welcome and for its kindly forethought 
in providing for the comfort of the party in tramway accommodation 
and the use of the spacious hall in which they were then assembled ; 
these thanks were heartily accorded by those present. Councillor McGuffie 
replied, and also the lady chairman of the Library Committee of the 
Council, expressing their pleasure at being present and their satisfaction 
that the day’s meeting had proved to be so enjoyable. 
Mr. Percy Thompson proposed the thanks of the party to our conductors 
and organisers of the meeting, Messrs. Barns and Roebuck ; these were 
heartily given, and Mr. Barns made a suitable reply. 
The visitors then dispersed. 
ORDINARY MEETING (544th MEETING) AND ANNUAL 
MEETING (545th MEETING). 
SATURDAY, 25 TH MARCH, 1922. 
These meetings were held in the Physical Lecture Theatre of the 
Municipal College, Romford Road, Stratford, with the President, Mr. 
Robert Paulson, F.L.S., F.R.M.S., in the chair. 42 members attended. 
Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt, of 90, Parliament Hill Mansions, Lissenden 
Gardens, Highgate Road, N.W.5, was elected a member of the Club. 
Mr. Avery exhibited a series of old prints illustrating the Saffron Walden 
district. 
The Curator exhibited a cased specimen of Golden Eagle from Suther¬ 
land, also a set-up Canadian Grey Squirrel, from near Glasgow, both from 
the Museum collections. 
Mr. Thompson also exhibited a quartzite pebble from Sutton Park, 
Warwickshire, from the Bunter Pebble Beds, which showed polish due to 
sand-blast action during desert conditions ; and, for comparison, a quartz- 
pebble from the desert at Assouan, Egypt, which showed similar surface 
polishing. 
The thanks of the meeting were passed to the exhibitors. 
The business of the annual meeting was then taken. 
The minutes of the last annual meeting were read and confirmed. 
The Hon. Treasurer presented his statement of accounts for the year 
ending 31st December, 1921, and moved formally that they be received 
and adopted. Mr. Drummond seconded. On being put to the meeting 
the motion was carried nem. con. 
The Hon. Secretary read the annual report of the Council for 1921. 
