TRANSACTIONS 
OF 
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
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I. 
The Presidential Address ; Delivered by Professor G. S. 
Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.R.M.S., at the Annual 
Meeting, January 26th, 1884. 
Ladies and Gentlemen, 
Since our last Annual Meeting, ■when you did me 
the honour to elect me to this chair, I think I may say that 
the Club has experienced a year of life that may fairly he 
termed successful. The nett increase in our numbers is 
satisfactory; but I would impress upon you the importance 
of still further enlisting the sympathies of residents in the 
county, especially in its more remote parts. Unable to 
attend our meetings, and in some cases beyond the range of 
the Field Meetings we have as yet attempted, it is by our 
publications that we must appeal to this wider constituency, 
in order that we may with their aid more completely repre¬ 
sent the county, and come to be, in the words of our late 
circular, “looked upon as the Scientific Registry Office for 
the county.” 
We have had to deplore the loss by death during the year 
of Mr. G. S. Gibson, of Mr. J. E. Howard, and of Dr. Charles 
T. Pearce, the latter a frequent attendant at our meetings, 
well known as an opponent, I regret to say, of vaccination. 
George Stacey Glbson 1 was born on July 20th, 1818, at 
Saffron Walden. He was the only child of Wyatt George 
1 [The photograph from which the 23ortrait is taken was kindly lent to 
the Editor for the engraver’s use by Mrs. Gibson.— Ed.] 
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