IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT RESPECTING THE 
PUBLICATIONS OE THE CLUB. 
I vert gladly announce that, after careful consideration and con¬ 
sultation with the most active members of the Club, the Council has 
decided to make a bold alteration in the mode of issuing our publications. 
In future the ‘ Transactions ’ and ‘ Proceedings ’ of the Club will be 
combined in the form of a monthly periodical, under the title of ‘ The 
Essex Naturalist, being the Journal of the Essex Field Club.’ 
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 
Archgeology 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 time 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. 
I am sanguine enough to think that the change will not only increase 
the interest of our members in the doings of the Club, but will greatly 
extend its usefulness as a practical Society; and by encouraging an 
inflow of new members, will ultimately add considerably to the scientific 
and financial resources of the institution. 
In the duty of conducting our monthly periodical, I rely upon the 
ready help and encouragement of all well-wishers of the Club, and of all 
who are desirous of extending a love of natural history studies and 
amusements in Essex, and among the dwellers in the eastern environs 
of London. The five volumes of ‘ Transactions ’ and ‘ Proceedings ’ now 
completed, together with the ‘ Report on the East Anglian Earthquake ’ 
(the first hook of the kind ever published in England ), form a record of 
work accomplished during the yet short life of the Club, upon which our 
members may justly be congratulated, and work which has added very 
considerably to the advancement of natural knowledge in Essex. I 
trustfully hope that the Essex Field Club will not lose the position it has 
gained, and that the ‘Essex Naturalist’ will be one agency at least by 
means of which the influence and credit of the Society may be enhanced 
in the time to come. 
WILLIAM COLE, 
Hon. Sec. and Editor. 
