JHB Pooks FIELD GLUBS 243 
ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
REPORT OF THE COUNCIL FOR 1922-23. 
Presented to the Annual Meeting on 24th March, 1923. 
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, 
Your Council has pleasure in reporting that the work of the Club has 
progressed steadily and satisfactorily during the past year, and the attend- 
ances both at the indoor and field meetings have been well maintained. 
In addition to the usual five winter meetings at Stratford, eleven field meet- 
ings and visits to museums have been held; we have to thank Mr. and 
Mrs. Avery, Mr. and Mrs. Briscoe, Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Buxton, Mr. and 
Mrs. Keeves, Mr. and Mrs. G. Morris, and the Librarian to the Leyton District 
Council for kindly hospitality extended on these occasions. 
We have to deplore the loss by death of several eminent Members since 
our last annual meeting. Professor G. S. Boulger and Mr. Thomas Vincent 
Holmes, both past presidents of our Club, Mr. Thomas W. Reader, a valued 
Member of Council, and last, but not least, our founder, Mr. William Cole, 
have all left us during the year. As regards our founder, your Council pro- 
poses to provide a suitable memorial to his memory with monies in its con- 
trol, being the balance of subscriptions made to the deceased’s Pensicn 
Fund. 
The present membership of the Club stands at 310, consisting of 17 
honorary and 293 ordinary members. 
During the year a change has taken place in the personnel of the Strat- 
ford Museum. Mr. Hardy, the capable and energetic assistant, has resigned 
on leaving for Canada, and a successor, Mr. Frank Jane, has just been 
appointed. Structural alterations to the Curator’s room and Library have 
just been necessitated by an extension of the adjoining College. 
Many accessions have been made to the collections during the past 
twelve months; especially noteworthy among these is the fine collection 
of British Lepidoptera bequeathed by the late Mr. William Cole, and a large 
number of books, comprising 43 bound volumes and 7 pamphlets, pre- 
sented by the executor of the late Mr. T. V. Holmes. The Library now 
includes some 4758 bound volumes: 87 volumes have been bound during 
the past year, and 20 others rebound or repaired. 
Our Pictorial Survey of the County is growing apace in Miss Greaves’ 
capable hands. Apart from a large amount of material which has not yet 
been mounted, no less than 749 prints or watercolour drawings, 21 photo- 
graphs, besides picture postcards, maps and other illustraticns, totalling 
in all over 2,100 items, are included in the mounted collecticn ot Essex 
pictorial records. Messrs. Daymond and Nunn have been generous donors 
to the photographic section. 
In response to a request made by the organisers of a special Stratford 
“ Education Week ’’ in June last, the Club co-operated by arranging special 
exhibitions and lectures at the Museum and conducted nature-rambles in 
Epping Forest : and received the thanks of the prcmoters tor the help so 
afforded. 
The Club’s museum at Queen Elizabeth’s Lodge, Chingford, has been 
cared for by the recent appointment of Miss Vera Oxley as honorary assistant 
curator. 
