30:? THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 



Mr. Harting said that he thought the plans put forward were very satis- 

 factory in the main, but the details would require some little further con- 

 sideration before they were finallv settled. He thought that many groups of 

 birds and animals could be well represented, and he would be happy to give 

 the Curator some hints on this matter. He had been asked why they had 

 two museums so near each other, and he had pointed out that the Forest 

 Museum and the Stratford Museum were quite distinct in plan and the 

 objects they woidd contain. The one would supplement the other. It would 

 be a great pity if, having got the use that very appropriate building in which 

 they were assembled and the cordial co-operation of many persons, they did 

 not fit it up worthily and make it of interest to those who rambled about the 

 forest and were interested in its natural history. 



The resolution was seconded by Mr. Walter Crouch, and carried unani- 

 mously. 



Mr. Howard Wall proposed : — 



"That a Public Subscription Fund be fortlninth opened to raise the minimum 

 SUM of /300 required at once by the Council and Committee of the Essex Field Club, 

 to carry out the scheme 0/ re-organization and re-arrangement of the Museum." 



This was seconded by Mr. Matthew Rose, and spoken to b}- Mr. Henry 

 Cook, J. P., and also carried unanimously. 



The Rev. A. F. Russell (as Chairman of the Epping Forest Museum 

 Committee) proposed : — 



"That the best thanks of this meeting he given to the Epping Forest Committee of 

 the Corporation of London for their public spirit shoivn in the restoration and main- 

 tenance of Queen Elizabeth's Hunting Lodge, and for the permission accorded to the 

 Essex Field Club to establish the Epping Forest Miiseum in the building." 



This was seconded in warm terms by Mr. Hugh McLachlan, and also 

 carried unanimously. 



Mr. E. N. Buxton, as Verderer, and Member of the Epping Forest Com- 

 mittee returned thanks for the vote. He said that the public were also much 

 indebted to the Essex Field Club, and its Secretary, for initiating the idea of 

 the Museum, and for pressing forward the scheme for restoring the Lodge 

 He was of opinion that this v^'ork would not have been taken in hand without 

 such initiation and support. He was himself much interested in the idea of 

 the Museum, but he was also interested in the Lodge as an ancient building, 

 and consequently was most desirous that the fittings put into the Museum 

 should be such as not to mar the antique appearance of the rooms. He 

 thought that the plan set forth of a typical series of the animals, birds, 

 insects, trees, &c., of the forest was all that could be attempted. The com- 

 plete scientific series would be found in the other Museum at Stratford. He 

 was willing to agree to the modified plans on condition that no high cases be 

 put into the rooms, and that the flat wall-cases should fit into the spaces 

 between the main timbers round the room, as shown in some specimens now 

 in the Museum. He suggested that the Secretary should see Mr. McKenzie, 

 the Superintendent of the Forest, and go into the matter with him. 



