A SHORT PROSPECTUS OF 



THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB 



(Founded January JOth, 1880.) 



Patron : 



H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, K.G., 

 Ranger of Epping Forest. 



iprcsiDcnt : 



Prof. R. Meldoi.a, F.R.S., F.R.A.S., F.C.S. 



ff>ermanent lDice=iprc6iDents : 



Professor G. S. Boulger, i T. V. Holmes, F.G.S., M.A.L 

 F.L.S., F.G.S. I Henry Layer, M.R.C.S., F.L.S., 



Frederic Chancellor, J. P., 



F.R.LB.A. 

 Edward A. Fitch, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



F.S.A. 



Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S, 

 F.R.A.S. 



iTieasucer : 



David Howard, J. P., F.C.S., Devon House, Buckhurst Hill. 



1bon. Secretaries: 



W. Cole and B. G. Cole, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. 



ILibrarians : 



Vacant {!) 



/Iftuseums, 1bea£)=(Siuarter6, an5 Xibrarg: 



Oueen Elizabeth's Lodge, Chingford, ) ^ 



/• Essex. 

 Essex Natural History Muskum, Stratford, ) 



Curator : 



W. Cole, F.L.S., F.E.S. 



The Essex Field Club is intended to band together those taking an 

 interest in Natural Science residing within or near the borders of Essex, 

 as well as those in London, with the aim of creating and fostering a taste 

 for the study of Nature in the field as well as in the study. 



The Publications of the Club have gained general estimation, 

 because of the care which has been taken to confine them to their 

 original purpose, the record of investigations and elucidations of the 

 Natural History (in its widest sense), the Topography and Pre- 

 historic Arch.eology, of the County of Essex and the lands and 

 sea bordering thereon. Since the foundation of the Club in 1880, 

 many thousand pages of such material have been published, and a 

 large proportion of the articles are of value to students residing outside 

 the Club's limits. 



