"'SPECIAL MEMOIR" SERIES OF THE ESSEX 

 FIELD CLUB. 



PRELIM IN A RY A NNO UN CEMENT. 



The Council intend to publish shortly, by Subscription, a work 

 lo be entitled 



THE 



MAMMALS, REPTILES, AND FISHES OF ESSEX: 



A CONTRIBUTION TO THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE 

 COUNTY. 



{Forming Volume III. of the Special Memoirs of the Essex 

 Field Club.) 



By Henry Layer, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., F.S.A., &c., Vice-President 

 of the Essex Field Club. 



This work, in conjunction with Mr. Miller Christy's " Birds of 

 Essex," issued in 1 891, as Vol. II. of the "Special Memoirs," will 

 afford a complete and Yaluable guide to the Vertebrate Fauna of the 

 county. 



The " Mammals, Reptiles, and Fishes of Essex " will be published 

 in Demy 8vo. form (uniform with the other publications of the 

 Club), well printed on superior paper, and handsomely bound in 

 scarlet cloth. The price of the Yolume will probably be 7s. 6d. ; 

 to Subscribers, 5s. ; and to Members of the Club, 4s. ; but these 

 quotations are subject to revision. 



Full particulars and Prospectuses will shortly be issued. 



The " Bibliography of Essex," which will probably form 

 Vol. IV. of the "Special Memoir" Series, is now in active 

 preparation. 



March, 1893. 



