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The 



Essex Naturalist: 



BEING THE 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



EDITED BY 



WILLIAM COLE, 



Honorary Secretary. 



Contents. 



PAGE 



The Essex Field Club. Field Meeting at Broomfield and i3ih Annual Meeting, and Special 



Meeting at Chelmsford, Saturday, April 15th, 1893 (concluded) Sr 



Two Forest Lodges. By William Chapman Waller, M.A., F.S.A. (U'iih Plate /., 



and iivo illustrations) 82 



Geological Notes in the Neighbourhood of Ongar, Essex. By Horace W. 



MoNCKTON, F.L.S., F.G..S 87 



The Essex Field Club. Field Meeting and 139th Ordinary Meeting at Ilford, Saturday, 

 April 29th, 92 ; Field Meeting at Chingford, Bury Wood, Sewardstone, etc., May 13th 

 (■with illustration), 95; Excursion to Bicknacre, Danbury, and Maldon, June i-jt\i (luitli 

 two illustrations), 99 ; Field Meeting at Barkingside and Wanstead, July ist, 104 ; Water 

 Excursion on the River Stour, through the V.ale of Dedham and " Constable's Country," 

 ]n\y 2^(^(1011/1 three illustrations) 107 



John Constable as a " Naturalist." By Charles E. Benham 112 



On the Gravels near Barking Side, Wanstead, and ^Valthamstow, Essex. By 



Horace W. Monckton, F.L.S., F.G.S 115 



Testacella Scutulum, Sowerby. (With illustration) 120 



Notes — Original and Selected. Otters breeding in the open at Brightlingsea ; Otters near 

 Brightlingsea ; Reported occurrence of a Seal (? sp.) near Walton-on-Naze ; Ornithological 

 Notes from Mistley; the Brightlingsea Heronry; Cormorant at Brightlingsea; Ruff 

 {,Mculietes pugnax) nearThorrington ; Colias edusa in South Devon ; Entomological Notes 

 from Mersea ; Scarcity of Lepidoptera; A Butterfly on the War-path; Geoinetra papilio- 

 naria in Epping Forest ; Abraxas ultnata and Brephos parthenias in Epping Forest ; 

 Plusia inonctaat.'^'oodfoTA; a Noctua new to Essex ; Lepidoptera at Woodford ; Additions 

 to List of Lepidoptera of Epping Forest district ; Eucalyptus flourishing in the open in 

 Essex; the " Canker- Bloom " of Sh.akespeare ; Drift Rocks in Epping Forest; Ancient 

 Pottery at Clactonon-.Sea ; Romano-British Urn at Willingale-Doe ; an ancient Pit at 

 Little Dunmow ; Chigwell Moat ; the Joslin Museum ; a Harmless Mnemonic ... pp. 123-131 



Ancient Entrenchments at Uphall, near Barking, Essex. By Walter Crouch, 



F.Z.S. (IVith th^ee illustrations) 131 



The Essex Field Club.— Joint visit of the Club and the "Sette of Chelmsford Odde Volumes " 

 to Castle Hedingham, August 2nd, 138 ; Visit to the Deneholes in Hangman's Wood, in 

 conjunction with the Geologists' Association, August I nh and i2th 143 



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