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article on this subject in 1894, which was reprinted in the Essex 

 Naturalist (VIII., 130), and Mr. Dalton's paper of i8go and 

 the reports by Messrs. Hohnes and Whitaker have already been 

 referred to. x\s a contribution to economic geology Dr. Thresh's 

 paper on the shallow and deep well-waters of Essex, accompanied 

 as it i'j by tables of analyses of the waters, is one of the highest 

 vahie [Ibid. VII., 28-40). In his recent work. Report on the 

 Water Supply of the County of Essex, of which a notice by 

 Mr. Dalton appears in the Essex Naturalist (XII., 62), Dr. 

 Thresh repeatedly acknowledges his indebtedness to our publica- 

 tions. Mr. T. S. Dymond's interesting note and analysis of the 

 manganiferous conglomerate found at Tendring {Ibid. X., 210) 

 was, until Miss Thresh's recent paper on the same subject, our 

 only original contribution to mineralogical geology. Mr. Percy 

 Clark's paper on the encroaching sea on the east coast is a 

 record of the effects of the high tide of Nov. 29th, 1897 {^bid. X., 

 297). Mr. Monckton's criticism of the official report by Mr. 

 Hunter Pringle on the land that had gone out of cultivation in 

 Essex {Ibid. IX., 70) may be regarded as a contribution to 

 economic geology 



Palaeontology and stratigraphy are necessarily- treated of 

 together in many of the communications which we have received 

 and published. Some of the papers on the Mollusca of Essex 

 catalogued under Zoology belong to both divisions. The popular 

 lecture on "A Day's Elephant-hunting in Essex," by the late 

 Henry Walker (Trans. I., 27), was the first paper pubhshed by 

 the Club after the Inaugural Address. Later, in 1882, Dr. 

 Henry Woodward, F.R.S., gave us an admirable lecture on 

 " The Ancient Fauna of Essex" to which he appended a list of 

 the Mammals from Ilford collected by Sir Antonio Brady and 

 now in the British Museum of Natural History {Trans. III., 

 1-29). The services rendered by our Hon. Member, Mr. E. T. 

 Newton, F.R.S., in connection with our palseontological work 

 have been acknowledged from time to time in our pages, and it 

 may be generally said that every important find of vertebrate 

 remains in Essex has had the advantage of being submitted to 

 his critical knowledge. Although Mr. Newton's contributions 

 to our work have not often taken the form of separate publica- 

 tions, they are none the less valuable, and any record of our past 

 achievements would be incomplete without some acknowledg- 

 ment of the part he has taken therein. A paper by him on the 



