I06 THE COMING OF AGE OF 



the Club is much indebted to those who have contributed to the 

 series : — 



1. Genenil Account of the Epping Forest Museum, with a Description of Queen 

 Elizabeth's Lodge. By W. Cole (in preparation). 



2. Notes on the Romano-British Settlement at Chigivell, Essex, ivith a Descrip- 

 tion of the Articles exhibited in the Epping Forest Museum. By I. Chalkley Gould- 



3. The Ess?x Museum of Natural History. A Short Statement of the Consti- 

 tution, Aims and Methods of the Museum. By W. Cole. 



4. A Brief Sketch of the Cr,ig Formation of East Anglia. An outline of the 

 nature, position, S'C,, of the beds ivhich have furnished the collection of Crag Fossils in 

 the Essex Museum of Natural History. By W. H. Dalton. 



5. A Handbook to the Collection of Pre-historic Objects in the Essex Museum of 

 Natural History. By F. W. Reader. 



Although I have undertaken in this address to give an 

 account of work actually accomplished rather than attempt to 

 point out the future needs of the Club, I cannot refrain from 

 drawing attention briefly to the requirements of our museums. 

 Although the collections brought together by the unflagging zeal 

 of our Curator and the generous contributions of our members 

 and friends may be fairly described as both rich in material and 

 most thoroughly appropriate, there still remains very mucli to be 

 done to bring the museums up to that standard of excellence 

 which the past record of the Club leads us to look for. There 

 is still scope for that organised and co-operative system of collect- 

 ing which I advocated in 1880 {Trans. I., 20) in order to help fill 

 the gaps yet existing in our series. Still more may we plead for 

 the means to enable us to classify and arrange the collections 

 with the greatest effect, for which purpose more cabinets and 

 fittings are required for both and especially for the Epping 

 Forest Museum, the re-equipment of which lias been made 

 mcumbent upon us by the recent restoration of the building. 



VIII.— THE CLUB IN ITS RELATIONS TO 

 EPPING FOREST. 



Established as we were in the year 1880 in the Forest 

 District, and about the period when that splendid tract of 

 country had been rescued from the hands of its depredators by 

 the public spirit of the Corporation of London, it is but natural 

 that we should have taken, as in fact it was our duty as a 

 body of naturalists to take, the greatest interest in its wel- 

 fare. Looking back to the history of our connection with 



