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decidedly outnumber the geological. Among the more important
are the paper by Messrs. Cooke and English on "The Hymeno-
mycetal Fungi of Epping Forest;" that by the Rev. J. M. Crombie on
its "Lichen Flora, and the Causes Affecting its Recent Diminution ; "
also the paper by Mr. R. M. Christy on "The Genus Primula."
We may also congratulate ourselves on the more general papers by
Prof. Boulger, treating of "The Origin and Distribution of the
British Flora," and of "The Influence of Man on the Flora of
Essex." Mr. E. M. Holmes and Mr. J. C. Shenstone have favoured
us from time to time with much valuable botanical information, and
our annual Fungus Forays have been made both more instructive
and attractive by the papers of Dr. Cooke, Mr. H. T. Wharton, and
Mr. Worthington Smith. The names of many other botanists who
have done us good service in various ways will suggest themselves,
but it is beyond my purpose to do more than remind you of some
of our chief workers in this and other departments.
Our entomological members are at least as numerous as the botani-
cal, and our Transactions and Proceedings abound in useful papers and
notes on the insects of Essex. Of these the one most worthy of note
is the excellent and admirably illustrated paper on "The Galls of
Essex," by Mr. E. A. Fitch. "The Mollusca of the District around
Colchester," and "The Mammalia of Essex" have formed the sub-
jects of two valuable papers by Mr. H. Laver; while "The Ancient
Fauna of Essex" have been described to us by that eminent natu-
ralist, Dr. Henry Woodward. We have in various ways been much
indebted to Mr. A. R. Wallace and Mr. Harting ; and only those who
have carefully looked through our "Proceedings" can be aware of the
large number of shorter notes on Essex animals to be found in them.
In prehistoric archaeology, our chief work has consisted of the
explorations of Ambresbury Banks and Loughton Camp, and of the
laborious but unfinished examination of the deneholes of Hangman's
Wood. Our labours in this department testify even more than our
other work to the energy and zeal with which our Club has been
carried on." And nothing can be more satisfactory than the accounts
in our Transactions of our excavations at the two camps, drawn up
by Lieut.-Gen. Pitt Rivers, in the case of Ambresbury Banks, and
by Mr. W. Cole, in that of Loughton Camp, and admirably illus-
trated by Mr. W. D'Oyley.2 A Report on the work done at Hang-
2 A glance since writing this Address at No. 1 of the Essex Naturalist shows me that we
are indebted to Mr. F. C. J. Spurrell for a carefully drawn plan of a third Essex Camp—that at
Witham.