THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB'S 

 "SPECIAL MEMOIRS." 



REPORT ON THE EAST ANGLIAN EARTHQUAKE, 



OF APRIL 22ND, 1884. 



Being Volume I. of the •' Special Memoirs," 



By Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., F.C.S., F.R.A.S., M.A.I., V.P., 



E.F.C. ; and William White, F.E.S., Member of Geologists' 



Association. 



With Four Maps and Eighteen other Illustyations. 



Price, neatly bound in cloth, 3s. 6d. 



" Fortunately for this country, we have not been called upon to notice a 

 report of such an earthquake as that which is chronicled in the volume before 

 us since this journal came into existence. Indeed, the authors state that no 

 shock approaching it in intensity has been experienced in the British Islands 

 for at least four centuries. A brief notice of the occurrence was given in our 

 columns (vol. xxx., pp. 17 and 60) by Mr. Topley, and we now have a complete 

 scientific account drawn up by Prof. R. Meldola, and presented to the Essex 

 Field Club as a special memoir, embodying the results of his investigation in 

 conjunction with his colleague, Mr. William White. The book consists of 

 about 225 pages of readable matter, with four maps and numerous illustra- 

 tions, and the Essex Field Club has certainly earned the gratitude of scientific 

 men in enabling the authors to give publicity to this final resultof their labour. 



Many illustrations of peculiar forms of damage are given, and 



there can be no doubt that the observations recorded in this section will be 

 not only of local interest, but also of use to engineers and others who occupy 

 themselves with the important question of Construction in Earthquake Coun- 

 tries '' —Nature, January 21st, 1886. 



THE VERTEBRATE FAUNA OF ESSEX. 



THE BIRDS OF ESSEX. 



A CONTRIBUTION TO THE 



NATURAL HISTORY OF THE COUNTY. 



Being Volume II. of the " Special Memoirs." 

 By Miller Christy, F.L.S. 



Without 162 Woodcut Illustrations, 2 Plans, and a Frontispiece. 



Price, los. nett ; to Members of the Club, 6s. 6d. post free. 



PRESS NOTICES. 



" This work . . . does equal credit to the enterprise of the Essex 

 Field Club and the author . . . The work is thoroughly well done, and is 

 a valuable addition to our local lists." — Athena-uni. 



" Mr. Christy's volume, with its valuable original contributions from 

 local ornithologists, will be a permanent addition to British zoology, and a 

 stimulus to the Field Clubs throughout England." — Leisure Hour. 



" Mr. Christy makes here an interesting contribution to the natural his- 

 tory of his county." — Spectator. 



" Almost every county nowadays has its local bird-chronicle, and it 

 seems remarkable that a county ornithologically so rich as Essex should have 

 remained a field unattempted until Mr. Christy took it up. . . His book is 

 full of information excellently put together." — Saturday Review. 



" Mr. Miller Christy's recently published and excellent work on the 

 " Birds of Essex " deserves the attention of every rambler in Epping Forest." 

 The Globe. 



" This work . . . differs from most works of the kind in being pro- 

 fusely illustrated. That most of the figures of birds are not new is, in this 

 instance, no drawback, for they have been well chosen." — The Field. 



