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1601), thus narrates the occasion of this lamentation:—"The 16 of July,
about nine of the clocke at night began a tempest of lightning and thunder,
with showers of haile, which continued till three of the clocke the next
morning, so terrible, that at Chelmsford in Essex 500 acres of corn were
destroyed, the glasse windowes on the east side of the towne and the west
and south sides of the Church were beaten downe, with also the tiles of their
houses, besides diverse barnes, chimneies, and the battlements of the church,
which were overthrowne. The like harme was done in many other places, as
at Leedes, Cranebrooke, Dover, etc." While Stow correctly writes of the
county town as Chelmsford, it is interesting to note that both in the 'boke'
and the 'ballet' of lamentation the town is described as 'Chensford,' because
even to this day it is not uncommon to hear people in the country districts
around talk of 'Chensford' and 'Chingford.'"
MISCELLANEA.
Jubilee Medal.—Our members will be pleased to hear that Her
Majesty the Queen has conferred a Jubilee Medal upon Prof. R. Meldola,
F.R.S., the first President of the Club, and now one of the Permanent Vice-
Presidents.
The English Earthquake of December 17th, 1896.—An exhaustive
paper on this earthquake as it affected Hertfordshire, by Mr. H. G. Fordham,
appears in Trans. Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. ix., pp. 183-208. The shock was
felt over the whole area of the County, but the structural damage was of the
slightest. The observations show that a terrestrial undulation took place,
the movement being compared by most recorders to that of a ship under
which one or more waves were passing. The author could not learn that it
extended into Essex. This is, of course, an error, as the Report in the
Essex Nat. for 1896 (vol. ix., page 258) demonstrates. Mr. Fordham draws
attention to the E. F. C. Report on the E. A. Earthquake, 1880, as "a model
of what may be achieved in this branch of scientific investigation by a local
Scientific Society. It is perhaps the only monograph extant of a modern
British earthquake. Complete and exhaustive as it is, and highly valuable
as a record, it is also well worth study as an example of an enquiry, and as a
guide to systematic observation and to the collection of facts in an investiga-
tion of great extent and difficulty." We still await Dr. Davison's monograph
of the 1896 Earthquake.
Errata in last part of E.N.—We regret that several errata and
"literals" occurred in the last part. Readers are requested to make the
following corrections :—Page 166, line 2 from bottom should read "Cydippe is
sometimes common, and small Crustaceans like Idotea," &c. ; page 176, line 8
from top, for "intending" read "intending" ; page 179, line 23 from bottom, for
"hospital" read "hospitable"; page 179, line 9 from bottom, read "Lady
Marjorie Greville" ; page 188, line 9 from top should read "now shared by many
naturalists. Bearing in mind," &c. ; page 188, lines 4 and g from bottom, for
"Ocynus" read "Oreynus" ; page 189, line 16 from top, for "timer" read
"timber."