THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
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FOUNDED JANUARY 10th, 1880. 
patron. 
H.R.H. THE DUKE OF CONNAUGHT AND STRATHEARN, K.G. 
{Ranger of Epping Forest.) 
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T. VINCENT HOLMES, F.G.S., etc. 
Application for Membership should be addressed to the Hon. 
Sewetary, William Cole, 7, Knighton Villas, Buckhurst Hill 
Essex. 
THE ESSEX NATURALIST, 
BEING 
THE JOURNAL [“ TRANSACTIONS" AND “PRO¬ 
CEEDINGS ”] OF THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB. 
Published not later than the 20th of each month. 
The Council has resolved in future to issue the ‘ Transactions ’ and ‘ Proceed¬ 
ings ’ of the Club combined in the form of a monthly periodical under the above 
title. The journal will ( consist of 16 pages per month, but in all probability 
frequent “double numbers” will be issued, in order to keep pace with the rapid 
accumulation of papers which have been read before the Club. The ‘ Essex 
Naturalist’ will be sent, post free, to all members who are not in arrear with 
their subscriptions, and will be on sale to non-members at a price not exceeding 
6d. per sheet of 16 pages. 
Contents.—The ‘Essex Naturalist’ will contain Papers read before the 
Club, or which may otherwise be placed in the Editor’s hands, Reports of 
Meetings of the Club, and, as space allows, a special feature will be Short 
Notes, treating of the Natural History, Geology, and Pre-historic Archceology of 
Essex, so that the journal may serve as a medium for inter-communication 
between the members on subjects included in the programme of the Society. 
Notices of Books, and other publications concerning Essex, will also appear 
from tinie to time, and it is hoped that the journal, when fully developed, will 
form an interesting register of the scientific activity of the county, whilst 
serving its primary purpose of keeping the members of the Essex Field Club 
promptly informed of all club news and proceedings. 
Contributions.—The Editor will be very glad to receive communications 
from anyone interested in Essex, whether a member of the Club or not, relating 
to the above-named subjects; also books and papers for notice in the journal, and 
cuttings and extracts from periodicals and newspapers, furnishing information 
respecting the occurrence of new or uncommon plants or animals, the exposure 
of new geological sections by railway or other works, new well-sinkings, dis¬ 
coveries of archseological interest, &c. In short, any Essex material will h 
welcomed which may fairly be claimed as coming within the scope of the C’ 
WEST, NEWMAN ANI) CO., PRINTERS, HATTON GARDEN, LONDON. 
