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and several fragments of rude pottery. The survey of the 
Camp and its surroundings will, I trust, be shortly completed, 
so that the final report may be presented at the next meeting 
of the Association at Southport. It is very satisfactory to 
know that our labours in the two Forest Camps have been 
so far crowned with success that we have -for ever dispelled 
the traditions which connected these remains with the 
Bomans. Other excavations will have to be made at some 
future time in Ambresbury Banks, and I hope that the 
Essex Field Club will not let slip this opportunity of extending 
our knowledge of this interesting object of local prehistoric 
Archaeology. In the meantime, however, another problem in 
the same field of science has presented itself, and the 
systematic exploration of the “ Deneholes ” at Grays will be 
the next task which we propose to take in hand. Although 
no subscription-list has yet been formally opened, funds for 
this purpose are already beginning to come in, and it is 
anticipated that early this summer we shall have sufficient in 
hand to warrant a preliminary examination of some of these 
imperfectly-known prehistoric human workings. 
The obituary list for the year includes the name of Mr. 
George T. Saul, F.Z.S., of Bow, to whose loss I briefly 
alluded on a previous occasion (see page i, ‘ Proceedings’). 
Darwin and Modern Evolution. 
Our list of honorary members suffers, as I had the sad 
duty of announcing at a former meeting, by the removal of 
the universally-revered name of Charles Darwin, who breathed 
his last on April 19tli, 1882, at his residence, Down, Kent, in 
the seventy-fourth year of his age. Much has already been 
said and writtefl about Mr. Darwin, and I cannot hope to 
give you on the present occasion anything beyond a general 
sketch of the enormous services rendered to every branch of 
natural science by this greatest of philosophic naturalists 
during a life of active work extending over more than half a 
century. Darwin was born at Shrewsbury in 1809, and on 
the side of both his parents came of celebrated lineage. He 
was grandson to Erasmus Darwin, the poet-naturalist, and 
