PRESENTATION TO MR. WILLIAM COLE. I25. 



As I am one of the oldest members cf the Club and also a member of the 

 first Council, it would have been peculiarly pleasant to have been present and 

 joined in the congratulations and thanks to William Cole for his magnificent and 

 unselfish work for our count). 



Yours very truly, 



T. Fisher UN WIN. 



BROADSTONE, WIMHORNE, 



Nov. qth, 1905. 

 My dear Meldola, 



It seems only the other day that you started the " Essex" — or, rather, 

 I think the Epping Forest — Field Club, and now you are celebrating its Jubilee 

 of 25 years. 



I heartily congratulate you and Mr. Cole on the great success of your work. 

 I look back upon my few rambles with the Club in its early days with great 

 pleasure, while the " fungus forays " were as delightful as they were instructive. 

 I only regret that distance and other occupations have for so many years debarred 

 me from the pleasure of attending your meetings and excursions. x 



With my very best wishes for the success of the Club and for the prolongation 

 of its life into the remotest conceivable futurity, 



Believe me, yours very sincerely, 



Alfred R. WALLACE. 



II, CRANMER ROAD, CAMBRIDGE. 



December 6th, 1905. 

 My dear Meldola, 



I am extremely sorry to be unable to be present at the celebration 

 dinner to Mr. Cole, but, as President of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, I 

 must be in the chair at their annual dinner. 



Had I been with you, I should have hoped to say much better than I can 

 write how heartily I congratulate Mr. Cole on his consummation of a great work; 

 for it is a great work to have founded, aud successfully piloted through all these 

 years, a club such as yours. 



Field Clubs with real working power such as yours are capable ot doing an 

 immense amount of good. 



Even your literary side — of course, I mean the periodical publication — 

 expresses a vigour and appreciation of the local scientific topics of interest and 

 importance, which arouses enthusiasm in anyone with a true love of Natural 

 History. 



You are, in the truest sense of the words, a " Field Club," and I hope you 

 will continue to be so, prying into local Natural History, and making yourselves 

 felt as a local power. 



As for myself, I am very proud to be enrolled in honour on your list. 

 Believe me, yours sincerely, 



H. Marshall WARD. 



WARWICK HOUSE, ST. JAMES'S, S.W., 



Nov. 2$th, IQ05. 

 Dear Professor Meldola, 



I regret very much that my engagements do not admit of my being 

 with you on Dec. 9th, and I, therefore, write a few lines for you to communicate 

 to the Meeting. 



In the first place let me congratulate you all on the completion of 25 years of 

 active work in our good County of Essex. You know lull well how warmly I 



1 In his recently-published Autobiography (vol. ii., p. 106) Mr. Wallace says :— "Shortly 

 before I left England (1886) I gave the lecture on " Darwinism" to the Essex Field Club, in 

 order to see how my diagrams of variation struck an intelligent audience, and was fairly 

 satisfied with the result." 



