PRESENTATION TO MR. WILLIAM COLE. I3I 



The foundation of the Essex Field Club, in 1880, was due to your initiative. 

 Since then, for a quarter of a century, you have acted continuously as its 

 Honorary Secretary and have edited the whole of its publications — a combination 

 of services which we imagine to be unique. To your labours during this long 

 period are due, in the main, the leading position the Club now holds among 

 Local Scientific Societies, and also the establishment of its two Museums (the 

 Epping Forest Museum, at Chingford, and the Essex Museum of Natural 

 History, at Stratford), of both of which you are now Curator. 



In the Rescue of Epping Forest, you took an active part, and you have 

 watched jealously over its interests ever since. 



We feel strongly that these long-continued and disinterested labours in 

 promoting locally the Cause of Natural Science deserve formal and public 

 recognition ; and the present time (in the twenty-fifth year of the Society which 

 you founded and have served so assiduously) seems peculiarly fitting for the 

 purpose. 



We ask you, therefore, to accept our grateful thanks, together with the 

 accompanying Purse of One Hundred and Ten Guineas. The latter is, of course, 

 no more than a slight token of our appreciation ot your labours, any adequate 

 remuneration being obviously impossible. 



Among those who have subscribed (169 in number, the subscription being 

 limited to one guinea) are the High Sheriff of Essex ; the Chairman of the Essex 

 County Council ; the Mayors of West Ham and of Chelmsford ; the Chairman of 

 the Epping Forest Committee of the Corporation of London ; all the four 

 Verderers of Epping Forest ; the President and many Fellows of the Royal 

 Society; many Fellows of other Learned Societies; the President, the eight 

 Past-Presidents, and numerous Members of the Essex Field Club ; and others 

 who have been associated with you in your work, or have admired it. 



Whilst thus thanking you in particular, we desire also to thank your brothers, 

 Messrs. B. G. and H. A. Cole, and your sisters, Miss Cole and Miss Jane Cole, 

 all of whom have helped you throughout, as we know, most untiringly. 



We trust that you and they may long continue the work you have carried on 

 so well, and for such a lengthened period. 



Adams, H. J., f.e.s. Buxton, Lady Victoria [Essex) 



Avenell, George Buxton, T. F. Victor, j.p. (High Sheriff of 



Avery, John, c.a., f.s.s. Byford, J., junr. [Mayor of West Ham) 



Baddeley, W. H. Cansdale, VV. D., f.e.s. 



Barnes, H. J. Chancellor, F., j.p. (Mayor of Chelmsford) 



Bartleet, H. S. Christy Miller, f.l.s. (President, Essex Field 



Benham, C. E. Club) 



Biggs, Miss M. M. Clapham, Mrs. E. 



Bird, James Clark, J. A., f.e.s. 



Boake, Arthur, f.c.s. Clark, Percy, b. a. 



Boake, E. J., b.a. Clarke, F. C 



Boswell, R. Bruce, M.A. Coburn, H. I. 



Boulger, Prof. G. S., f.l.s., f.g.s. Colchester, The Bishop of 



Bowles, E. Augustus, m.a., f.l.s., f.e.s. Coles, Mrs. Harriet 



Brand, F. J. Colsell, Robert 



Briscoe, A. E., b.sc. Corcoran. Bryan 



Brown, Horace T., ll.d., f.r.s., f.c.s., f.g.s. Dalton, W. H., f.g.s., f.c.s. 



Brown, VV. H. Dawson, Charles J. 



Bryan, Colonel, c.e. Dent, Francis 



Bullen, Rev. R. Ashington, b.a., f.l.s. Dewick, Rev. E. S., f.s.a., f.g.s. 



Buxton, Edward North, j.p., d.l., etc. Duffield, F. H. 



(Verderer, Epping Foiest) Dymond, T. S., f.c.s., f.i.c. 



Buxton, Mrs. E. North Edwards, J. Passmore 



Buxton, Gerald, j.p. Edwards, Stanley, f.l.s., f.z.s., f.e.s. 

 Buxton, Sir T. Fowell, Bart., k. cm. g., u.l., Elliott, F. W. 



etc. (Verderer, Epping Forest) Evans, Sir John, k.c.b.,d.c.l., ll.d., f.r.s., etc. 



