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scientifically recording such uncommon phenomena when they 

 occurred. From this point of view it was well received by the 

 scientific public and by the Press, and at the time of its publica- 

 tion was the only complete monograph of a British earthquake. 

 The Herefordshire earthquake of Dec. 17th, 1896, was also 

 felt in our County (Essex Naturalist, IX., 258; X., 240) and 

 formed the subject of an excellent monograph by Dr. C. Davison 

 published in 1899 by the aid of a grant from the Royal Society. 

 This memoir is cast on very much the sariie lines as our Report, 

 but is worked out much more exhaustively, the author coming 

 to the same conclusion respecting the origin of the earthquake 

 that we had arrived at concerning the Essex earthquake, viz., 

 that it may have been connected with the process of " faulting " 

 in the geological sense. It is of interest to note also that Dr. 

 Davison estimates that in "concentrated severity the Essex 

 earthquake far exceeded the Hereford earthquake," although 

 the total area disturbed was greater in the case of the latter. ^ 



/ v.— A NTHROPOL OGY. 



At the beginning of the Club's existence we decided to 

 restrict our actual work in the domain of archaeology to the 

 study of that period which, although perhaps not definable 

 within any rigid limits, is known generally as the pre-historic or 

 non-historic (Inaugural Address, Trans. I., 18). The later 

 archaeology had been and still is well looked after by the Essex 

 Archaeological Society, and although we have generally made a 

 point of vi.siting places of archaeological interest in the course of 

 our field-meetings we have not laid ourselves out for the publica- 

 tion of detailed archaeological papers. Some small amount of 

 unavoidable overlap may have occurred, but I do not think that 

 we have encroached very seriously upon our neighbour's domain. 

 It has been and will I hope always continue to be the policy of 

 the Club to treat archaeology rather in its scientific aspect as a 

 branch of the modern science of anthropology. 



With respect to pre-historic archaeology we may take credit 

 for having made substantial contributions during the past 

 twenty-one years. The chapters on the archaeology of Essex 

 for the Victoria History of the County which have been written 



3 The Hereford Earthquake of December 17th, 1896. By Charles Davison, Sc.D., F.G S., 

 Biruiingham, (Jornish Bros., 1899, P- 224- 



