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Essex Naturalist: 



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ESSEX FIELD CLUB, 



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 The Essex Field Club. Visit to the Deneholes in Hangman's Wood, in conjunction with 



the Geologists' Association, August nth and 12th (concluded), 145; Meeting at Boyles 



Court, South Weald, Warley and I)renlwood, August 19th 



Astronomy in 'Wanstead : A Chapter of its Past History. By Walter Crouch, 



F.Z.S. {With illustration) 



Notes on the Conference of Delegates of the Corresponding Societies of the 



British Association held at Nottingham, 1893. By T. V. Holmes. F.G.S 



The Fresh-water Algae of Essex ; a Preliminary List of Recorded Spaces. By 



M. C. Cooke, M.A., LL.D., A.L.S., etc 



The Essex Field Club. The Cryptoganiic and Botanical ^Meeting and Ordinary Meeting, 



Saturday, November 4th, 1893 ; The T42nd Ordinai-y Meeting, Saturday, November 25th, 



1893 ; The 143rd Ordinary fleeting, Saturday, December 16th, 1S93 



Notes on the Seasons of 1833, Principally in the Neighbourhood of Feistead. By 



J. French 



The late Henry William King, of Leigh. By Walter Crouch. F.Z.S. (IVith 



Portrait) 



"Locusts in Essex." 



Notes — Original and Selected. Otters in Essex ; P'alconida; in Essex ; Aberrations of 



the Common Sparrow .at Dagenham ; Feeding the Birds {with illustration) ; Birdcatchers ; 



Dannetts Hill ; Stulpw.ay 



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