112 THE COMING OF AGE OF 



Gould's note on a Forest Document of the Eighteenth 

 Century {Ibid. IX., 72). We have liad also special com- 

 munications on the Forest Lodges by Mr. Waller (Ibid. 

 VII., 82) and on Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, the head- 

 quarters of our Epping Forest Museum, by Mr. James Cubitt 

 (Ibid. IX., 166) and Mr. W. W. Love {Ibid. XL, 153). I will 

 venture also to remind you that in 1894-95 I succeeded in re-dis- 

 covering most of the old boundary stones on the eastern side of 

 that wide expanse of country which constituted the Great 

 Waltham Forest of early times, the area which we now propose 

 to accept as the Forest district in connection with the Chingford 

 Museum. The stones in the Navestock district were visited by 

 the Club on July 28th, 1894 (Essex Naturalist VIII., 213) 

 and the complete story of the boundary stones published the 

 following year {Ibid. IX., i). The account of the perambulation 

 of 1 64 1 when these stones were set up was reprinted in a paper 

 " On the Area of Epping Forest for Faunistic purposes," 

 published by our Secretary in 1892 {Ibid. VI., 10). The work 

 of the Club is recognized also in Mr. E. N. Buxton's excellent 

 little book Eppimr Forest, which contains many references to our 

 publications as well as several contributions from our members. 



IX.—MISCELL A NEOUS WORK. 

 Much of the work done by our Club, as in the case of other 

 local societies, does not admit of being exactly pigeon-holed. 

 Field meetings naturally call forth communications concerning 

 me history of the places visited and of their more interesting 

 buildings and antiquities, as well as biographical sketches of any 

 past inhabitants who may iiave made the place famous. Thus 

 much topographical and biographical information has found its 

 way into the reports of our iield meetings, adding very much to 

 their interest, although such information does not strictly speak- 

 ing come within the province of a scientific society. The 

 biographies of famous Essex people who have made tiieir mark 

 as workers in science must, however, always be regarded 

 as legitimate matter for publication in our pages, and I am 

 glad to be able to refer to many such communications. The 

 purely antiquarian and topographical interests centreing in our 

 County are already well catered for by the Essex Archaeological 

 Society and the Essex Review, and their is no occasion for any 

 unnecessary duplication of work in this direction. 



