•JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS 
AT 
' ORDINARY, FIELD, AND OTHER MEETINGS. 
Saturday, February 25 th, 1882.— Ordinary Meeting. 
The twenty-fifth Ordinary Meeting was held at the head-quarters at 
seven o’clock, the President in the chair. 
Donations of books, pamphlets, or periodicals (exclusive of “ ex¬ 
changes” with other scientific societies) were announced from Mr. R. L. 
Barnes (2 journals monthly), Lady Brady, Mr. C. Darwin, Mr. Andrew 
Johnston (2 vols.), Mr. A. Lockyer, Sir John Lubbock, Miss E. A. Orme- 
rod, Mr. TV. White, and Mr. A. P. Wire. Mr. G. C. Harcourt presented 
to the museum the first portion of a collection of the flowering plants of 
the Forest district (preserved with their natural colours and forms by 
Mr. English), consisting of 127 species, and the six cases containing the 
same. Mr. C. Oldham presented a number of bones and horn-cores of a 
species of Bos found in digging a trench in a yard in Maybank Road, near 
George Lane Station, Woodford, concerning the age of which some 
doubt was expressed. Mr. Saward presented a number of skins of Essex 
birds (12 species), and stuffed specimens of six species ; also a stuffed 
specimen of the common weasel. Miss Spicer, stuffed specimens of the 
jay and missel thrush, from Woodford. 
Cordial votes of thanks were passed to the donors, special attention 
being directed to Mr. Harcourt’s interesting and valuable present. 
The following persons were elected members of the Club :—Messrs. T. 
C. Baring, M.P., D.L., &c., Chalkley Gould, J. H. Gurney (Jun.), F.Z.S., 
W. H. Harwood, Henry Laver, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., Walter Mawer, F.G.S., 
D. J. Morgan, and A. P. Wire. 
The President said—We have to record the death of one of our mem¬ 
bers, Mr. George Thomas Saul, who died on the 22nd January, at the age 
of 69. Although never personally with us, he took great interest in the 
work we are doing, and helped our fund for the investigation of the 
Ancient Camps. He was a Fellow of the Zoological, Royal Botanical, 
Horticultural, and other Societies, and took great interest in the intro¬ 
duction and propagation of new plants. Large-hearted and of warm 
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