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Essex Naturalist: 



BEING THE 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



EDITED BY 



WILLIAM COLE, F.L.S., F.E.S., 



Honorary Secretary and Curator. 



Contents. 



PAGE 



History of Essex Botany. By Prof. G. S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S. (.In Progress.) 57 

 Report of Club's Delegate at the Meeting of the Corresponding Societies' 

 Committee of the British Association at Dover, September, i8gg. By 



T. V. Holmes, F.G.S 68 



Notes on the occurrence of the White-tailed Eagle and the Salmon at 



Harwich in 1666. By Miller Christy, F.L.S 7^ 



Yardley Hill, the Latest Addition to Epping Forest. {With two illustrations.) 78 



The After-Effects of the High-Tide of November 29th, 1897 83 



On the Local Extinction and Diffusion of Molluscs in Essex. By J.French. 86 



A Supposed Neolithic Settlement at Skitts Hill, Braintree, Essex. By the 

 Rev. J. \V. Kenworthv. With remarks on the Archaeological Objects by 

 F. W. Reader; on the Geology of the District by T. V. Holmes, F.G.S.; 

 and on the Osteological Specimens by E. T. Nenvton, F.R.S. (With three 

 Plates and nineteen other illustrations.) 94 



The Occurrence in Essex of a Species of Isopoda new to Britain (Porceliio 



ratzburgi). By W. M. Webb, F.L.S 127 



The Essex Field Club. Garden Party at Knighton, 128 ; Visit to Yardley Hill, 129 ; 



Voyage on Lea from Hertford to Waltham .Abbey, 130 ... ... ... ... 128 



Short Papers : — Random Notes by an Old Angler on the Lea and its Fishes. 

 By Mark Davies, 133 ; Rye House, 1685. By B. Winstone, M.D., F.G.S. , 

 135 ; "Walton's Favourite River." By E. .A. H. Bramlev, 133 



Notes — Original and Selected 141 



(Title and Index to Volume X. inserted.) 



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