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been drawn up by Mr. Cole descriptive of the Museum, for the purpose of giving
visitors some idea of its purpose and scope, and the reader may be referred to this
leaflet, and to the prospectus issued by the Local Committee in 1894, as well as to
the Report of the Curator for information on these points. In anticipation also
of the opening, Mr. I. Chalkley Gould prepared a description of his collection of
Romano-British relics from Chigwell, which forms so interesting an exhibit in the
Museum.2
Mr. Deputy R. C. Halse, Chairman of the Epping Forest Committee of the
Corporation of London, very kindly consented to open the Museum, and he was
Banqueting Room in the Lodge, before the Establishment of the Museum.
supported by the presence of many Members of. the Epping Forest Committee,
the Verderers, and the Superintendent of the Forest, Mr. F. McKenzie.
A large and representative assembly of guests and members of the Club
assembled at Mr. Butler's "Retreat," near the Lodge (kindly lent for the
occasion), at about three o'clock, to receive the Chairman and Committee, who
were driven over from Mr. Buxton's house at Buckhurst Hill. Mr. David Howard,
President, received the company, and was supported by the Members of the Local
Committee, including the Rev. A. F. Russell (Chairman), the Rev. W. T. Dyne,
2 "Notes upon the Romano-British Settlement at Chigwell, Essex. With a Description of
the Articles exhibited in the Gould Loan Collection in the Epping Forest Museum." By I.
Chalkley Gould. Chingford, 1895. Price, 6d.