THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB 



FOUNDED JANUARY Wth, 1880. 



H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND STRATHEARX, K.G. 



(Ranger of Epping Forest.) 



^Jrc5ibcut : 

 Edward A. Fitch, CC, F.L.S., F.E.S., F.R.M.S. 



iJicc-^Jrrsiicnts: 



Professor G S. Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



E. N. Buxton, C.A., J. P., D.L., &c. 



Walter Crouch, F.Z.S. 



T, V. Holmes, F.G.S., M.A.I. 



Henry Layer, M.R.C.S., F.S.A., F.L.S. 



Professor R. Meldola, F.R.S., F.C.S , F.R.A.S., F.E.S., &c. 



Right Hon. Lord Rayleigh, F.R.S., D.L., &c. 



This Association, the only Scientific Society of like aims in Essex, was 

 founded for the study and investigation of the Natural History^ Geology., and Pre- 

 historic Archmology of the County ; the publication of the results of such investi- 

 gations ; the formation of a Library of local and scientific works ; the formation 

 of a Museum to illustrate the natural productions of Essex ; and generally to aid 

 in the dissemination of practical knowledge of Natural Science and Antiquities. 

 A further very important object of the Society is to promote a reverence for the 

 natural features of the County, its Flora and Fauna, its numerous pre-historic 

 remains and other monuments, and to incite a desire to protect them from wanton 

 spoliation and injuiy. 



The Or-dinary (Scientific) Meetings are held about once a month 

 during the autumn, winter, and early spring, and in connection with these occa^ 

 sional " Winter Meetings" are held in the larger towns in Essex — the after- 

 noons being devoted to an examination of the A'luseums, antiquities, and other 

 objects of interest, while in the evenings Ordinary Meetings of the Club will be 

 held for the reading of papers, notes, &c., and the exhibition of specimens, 

 especially such as may be of local interest. 



Field Meetings are arranged during the summer months, and held in 

 various parts of the count}', and elsewhere, for out-door observation under the 

 guidance of experienced Naturalists, Geologists, and Archaeologists. Other 

 Meetings of the National Museums, Lectures, &c., are arranged from time to 

 time. 



In organising the Essex Field Club the main desire of the Founder was to 

 establish an Association which should be both popular and scientific, and which 

 should represent, from the point of view of its foundation, the whole County of 

 Essex ; to form a central body to which communications and specimens relating 

 to Essex and general Natural History, &c., might be sent for at least careful 

 ■consideration and discussion, so that the publications of the Society should in 



