THE ESSEX NATURALIST 



[The Journal of the Essex Field Club). 



Established January, 1887. 



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



Published Quarterly. Price (to Non = Menibers), 6s. per annum. Post free. 



" The Essex Naturalist has long been known as the ably conducted journal 

 ot one of the best field clubs in existence. Full accounts of the meetings and 

 excursions of the Essex Field Club are given, and, in addition to these, any 

 observations of interest to naturalists made within the limits of the county 

 are recorded, and when necessary illustrated The term naturalist is quite 

 properly used in the very widest sense, so that the journal includes meteoro- 

 logical, geological, geographical and anthropological observations, as well as 

 others dealing with ancient marks, boundaries and buildings, customs and 

 trades. 



" The journal is an excellent example of all that the organ of a field club 

 and county natural history society should be. It fulfils a double function, 

 recording interesting observations which would otherwise have been forgotten, 

 and stimulating its members to make fresh efforts in their own districts. 

 Throughout every county opportunities for observation are continually 

 occurring, opportunities which are often wasted for want of an alert local 

 naturalist. A fresh cutting made on a railway, a new gravel pit opened, an 

 old house pulled down, afford the chance of interesting and often valuable 

 observations when the keen and trained observer is on the spot. The 

 encouragement of such work is of no less importance for the progress of 

 science than the comprehensive papers by acknowledged leaders of their 

 subject which appear in the Essex Natuva'Ust. These would be published 

 under any circumstances, whereas the former are rescued from the multitude 

 of observations which might have been. 



" The journal is exceedingly well printed, and is a model of careful and 

 successful editorship "— E. B. P., Nature, January nth, 1900. 



NOTICE OF REMOVAL. 



The Secretaries beg to give notice on behalf of the Council 

 that on and after the \st of May next, the Head Quarters and 

 Publishing Office of the Club will be at the " Esse.\ Local 

 and Educational Museum of Natural History of the Esse.x Field 

 Club" [Passmore Edwards Museum) The Romford High Road, 

 Stratford, Essex. 



All books for the library, specimens for the Museum, &c., 

 should then be sent to the above address. Letters for the 

 Secretaries may still be sent to Buckhurst Hill, or to the 

 Museum. Specimens, books, &c., intended for the " Epping 

 Forest Branch Museum of the Essex Field Club," may be sent 

 to Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, Chingford, Essex ; but no perishable 

 specimens should be sent there, but to the Head Quarters, 

 where the Curator's workroom is established. 



John Dutton, Pkintkr, Chelm-sforp. 



