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I The 



Essex Naturalist: 



BEING THE 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



EDITED BY 



WILLIAM COLE, 



Honorary Secretary, 



Contents. 



PAGE 



A Provisional List of the Marine Algae of Essex and the Adjacent Coast. By 



E. A. L. Batters, B.A., LI .B., F.L.S i 



The Essex Field Club. Annual Report of the Council for year ending December 31st, 1893 26 

 The Enpinff Hunt. Notes from a Memorandum as to the Right of the Citizens of London 



to Hunt in ts Vicinity, including Epping Forest. Abstracted by W. Chap.man Waller, 



M.A., F.S.A 31 



On the Occurrence of Crepidula fornkata, L., off the Coast of Essex. By Walter 



Crouch, F.Z.S 36 



The Essex Field Club. The 144th Ordinary Meeting, February 3rd, 1894 39 



Photography as an Aid in Physical and Natural Science. By Prof. R. Meldola, 



F.R.S 39 



Meeting in Furtherance cf the Epping Forest Free Local Museum, April 28th, 



1894 44 



The Essex Field Club. The 145th Ordinary Meeting, February 24th, 1894, 48; The 14th 



Annual General Meeting, March 31st, 1894 50 



The Mansgement of Epping Forest. Field Meeting in Epping Fore.st, April 28th, and 



Verbatim Report of Discussion 52 



Notes on Essex Dialect and Folk-Lore, with some account of the Divining-Rod. 



By George Day, F.R.M.S 71 



Notes— Original and Selected. (With Hvo Engravings) 85 



{Title and Index to Vol. VH. tvill he published with next part.] 



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respective papers. 



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