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PRESENTATION TO MR. WILLIAM COLE. 



A. : E. Briscoe, B.Sc, &c, Late 



Principal of the Municipal 



Technical Institute, West Ham 

 Rev. R. Ashington Bullen, 



Chairman of Council of the 



Selborne Society 

 E. North Buxton, D.L., &c, 



Verderer of Epi>ing Forest 

 Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart.,D.L., 



/ r erderer of Epping Forest 

 T. F. V. Buxton. High Sheriff 



of Essex, J. P., &c. 

 J, Byford, jun , Mayor of 



West Ham 

 Frederic Chancellor, T-P- 

 Edward A. Fitch, J.P., C.A., 



F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 Peter Geilatly, D.L., Verderer of 



Epping Forest. &°c. 



The Vicomte Horncastle, Chairman 

 Epting Forest Committee of the 

 Cor potation of London 



Andrew Johnston, J. P., Chairman 

 Essex County Council 



Henry Laver, J.P., F.S.A. 



E. T. Newton, F.K.S., F.G.S., &c. 



E. BTPoulton, F.R.S., F.L.S., &c. 



E. A. Read, Verderer of Epping Forest 

 Thomas W. Reader. F.G.S. 



F. W. Rudler, I.S.O., F.G.S. 

 J. C. Shenstone. F.L.S. 

 John Spiller, F.C.S., F.I.C. 

 The Countess of Warwick 



Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S.,Hon. Sec. 



Selborne Soc. 

 William Whitaker, B.A., 



F.R.S., F.G.S. 

 E. J. Wythes, J. P., &c. 



This Committee included, it will be seen, all the eight Past- 

 Presidents of the Club, with other gentlemen, some of whom are 

 members of the Club, whilst others are not. 



During October last, I sent out, in the name of this Com- 

 mittee, to all members of the Club and to many others likely to 

 appreciate Mr. Cole's work, an appeal asking for subscriptions 

 (not exceeding one guinea) to " The William Cole Recognition 

 Fund," and stating that the Committee (having taken steps to 

 ascertain what would be acceptable to Mr. Cole) proposed — 



(i) To present to him, as a slight testimony of appreciation 

 of his work, a purse of at least One Hundred Guineas ; 



(2) To entertain him, together with his Brothers and Sisters 

 (all of whom have assisted him very greatly in his work), as 

 Guests at a Complimentary Dinner, at which the purse would be 

 presented ; and, further, 



(3) To present also to the Guests at the Dinner a formal 

 inscribed Address of Thanks. 



The response to this appeal was most gratifying. No fewer 

 than one hundred and sixty-nine ladies and gentlemen (chiefly, 

 of course, members of the Essex Field Club) sent subscriptions 

 varying in amount from 2s. 6d. to the maximum of £1 is. 1 The 

 Committee found itself, therefore, in possession of a sum 

 sufficient to enable it to hold the proposed dinner, to present a 

 Purse of one hundred and ten guineas, to pay for the engrossing 



1 Their names will be found appended to the formal Address, which is printed 

 hsreafter. 



