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dissemination amongst its members of information on natural science 

 and antiquities." Excursions, under skilful direction, to various 

 localities of interest to the naturalist and antiquary, will also be a main 

 object of the Club. 



The Club will strongly discourage the practice of removing rare 

 plants from the localities where they are to be found or of which they 

 are characteristic, and of risking the extermination of rare birds and 

 other animals by w^anton persecution ; it will also endeavour to use its 

 influence with landowners and others for the protection of the same, 

 and to dispel the prejudices which are leading to their destruction. In 

 like manner the Club will endeavour to cultivate a fuller knowledge of 

 local antiquities, historical, popular, and idiomatic, and to promote a 

 taste for carefully preserving the monuments of the past from wanton 

 injury. 



Considering the fine field offered to the biologist in Epping Forest 

 and the surrounding country, it is certainly a matter of surprise that a 

 Society similar to that now in process of formation was not long since 

 founded. At any rate the promoters of the Ciub venture to claim for it 

 the cordial support of all students of the subjects comprised in the 

 scheme, as well as the approval of those willing to encourage the 

 pleasant, instructive, and healthful recreations of the amateur field 

 naturalist and antiquary. 



The proposed subscription will be fifteen shillings per annum for 

 gentlemen and ten shillings for ladies. Persons residing beyond a 

 certain radius (say fifteen miles) from the head-quarters of the Club 

 will only be required to pay subscription of ten shillings and seven 

 shillings respectively. Persons joining the Club upon or within two 

 calendar months from its establishment will thereupon be considered 

 original members. 



Should you approve of the objects of the Club, but be unable to 

 attend the meeting, I should be much obliged by your signing the 

 accompanying letter and returning it to me at your earliest convenience. 

 I shall then have much pleasure in adding your name to the list of 

 original members. — I am, yours faithfully, 



Wm. Cole {Hon. Sec. pro tern.) 



Several kindly and appreciative notices of the proposed Society 

 appeared in London and provincial journals, and upw-ards of a hundred 

 ladies and gentlemen enrolled their names as original members before 

 the day fixed for the formation of the Club.] 



S.\TURDAY, January ioth, 1880. 



A public meeting for the foundation of the Club was held at seven 

 o'clock in the evening in the rooms of the Art Classes, Buckhurst Hill 



