THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARCHITECTURE IN ESSEX. 



I have now, in a very cursory manner, travelled with you up and 

 down the county, exploring the buildings spread over a period of 

 sixteen centuries. My object has been to point out to you the main 

 characteristics of each period of architecture. The limit of an hour 

 has scarcely been enough to enable me to do more than to touch 

 in the lightest manner, the peculiarities of each period, but if the 

 few remarks I have been able to put together will induce even one 

 person present to study the subject more closely I shall have been 

 amply rewarded. 



LOCAL (ESSEX) MUSEUM AND LIBRARY, 



NEW LONDON ROAD, CHELMSFORD. 



Epping Forest (Branch) Museum, Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, 

 Chingford. 



DONATIONS OF SPECIiMENS AND COLLECTIONS OF A LOCAL 

 (ESSEX) CHARACTER, and from the Epping Forest District, are 

 invited. They should be sent at present to Mr. W. Cole, Hon. Sec. and Director^ 

 Buckhurst Hill or Chelmsford. A letter should precede the donation, and the 

 Council reserves to itself the right to refuse any unsuitable specimens. 



The fullest details should be given of the locality, finder, and other precise 

 information about each specimen, for insertion in the Register. 



The Director will be glad to give any instructions in his power to those 

 proposing to collect for the Museum. 



It is sincerely hoped that all Members fond of Natural History will try to 

 assist in a work of so much interest and importance. 



The Club already possesses a very considerable LIBRARY, consisting of books, 

 MSS., prints, photographs, etc., appertaining in any way to the County of Essex, 

 and also of scientific, antiquarian, topographical, and other literature, and every 

 effort is being made to enlarge it and increase its usefulness. The Library is for 

 the use of the members only, and such visitors as may be admitted under the 

 regulations of the Librarians. 



DONATIONS OF BOOKS, prints, maps, etc., of the classes above indicated 

 should be sent, at present, to Mr. Edmund Durrant, 90, High Street, Chelms- 

 ford, or to Mr. W. Cole, at the Quarters of the Club, Knighton Villas, Buckhurst 

 Hill, Essex. 



