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The 



Essex Naturalist: 



BEING THE 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ESSEX FIELD CLUB, 



EDITED BY 



WILLIAM COLE, 



Honorary Secretary, 



Contents. 



PAGE 



The New Railway between Upminster and Romford. Boulder Cl.iy beneath Old 

 River Gravel at Hornchurch. Conclusions therefrom. By T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., M.A.I., 

 etc. (\Vith Sketch Map). i 



Old Loughton Hall. By William Chapman Waller, M.A., F.S.A. {With Engraving) 14 



Notes — Original and Selected. Destruction of Otters in Essex; Rough-legged Buzzard 

 (Archibuteo lagofius) at Little Baddovv; Waxwing {Ampelis garrtdus) at Oakley and 

 Stock ; Robin Nesting in the Winter ; Effect of Want of Light (?) on Colour of a Frog 

 Hydrobia (Paludestrina) Jenkinsi ; Freshwater Molluscs in Brackish Water ; Sake' 

 (commonly called "Snake's") Lane, Woodford; Correct Spelling of " Fowlness Island" 

 Dagenham and Dagnams ; Rainfall at Chelmsford in 1892 



The Shallow and Deep Well Waters. of Essex. By John C. Thresh, D.Sc, M.B. 

 D.P.H.,etc. {With Appendix) 



The Essex Field Club. Autumnal Ramble in Epping Forest, and 136th Ordinary Meeting, 

 Saturday, November 19th, 1892 ; Ordinary iSIeeting, Tuesday, February 21st, 1893 

 Ordinary Meeting, March 14th, 1893 



Excursion of the Geologists' Association to Ilford 



The "Holy Thorn" at Woodham Ferrers, Essex 



28 



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