INDEX TO VOLUME X.
ix
Resolutions respecting appoint- 
ment of Committee, 256 ; Agree-
ment with Corporation of West 
Ham, and Munificent Gift of Mr.
Passmore Edwards, 337
Museum, Saffron Walden, The late
Sir B. W. W. Richardson on, 192
Museums, the Educational Value of,
192; Essex Field Club's, Condi-
tions as to acceptance of specimens,
21
Mycetozoa, Hints on the Study of,
&c., 23
Mycology, Sixty Years of British,
216
Passmore Edwards, Mr.,Gift towards
foundation of Essex Museum, 231,
251, 237
Paxman, Alderman, entertains the
Club, 403
Peucedanum officinale in Essex, 190
Pewit Island, visit to, 226
Pieris brassicae, abundance of, 294
Pike, Large, in Lea River, 292
Plant Companionship (Symbiosis) in
the Forest, 170
Plants, in Epping Forest, 61; On the
extermination of, 82; Two rare
Essex, 190 ; Uncommon Essex, ex-
hibited, 403
Polecat in Suffolk, 290
"Portingbury Fields" in Hatfield
Forest, 178
Porzana maruetta in Lea Valley, 235,
293
Presidential Address, 1897,16, 82 ; do.
1898, 241
Prestwichia aquatica, Discovery of the
male in Epping Forest, 10
Primula elatior, Distribution of in
Britain, 142
Primula plants, Two interesting, 307
Pritchett, G. E., Maze at Tilty
Abbey, 184
Protection of Native Fauna and
Flora, Discussion on, 179; Of Wild
Birds in Essex, 56,133, 274
Purleigh, Colias edusa at, 236
Querquedula circia in Lea Valley, 235
Queen Elizabeth's Lodge in 1853,
143
Rainfall, Extraordinary, in 1896 and
1897, 62
Rainfall and Temperature in Essex
in 1896 and 1897, 62 ; in 1898, 413
Ramsden, Black-throated Diver at
235
Ray, John. Visit to Dewlands and his
Grave, 402 ; Contemporaries of, in
Biology, 403
Rayleigh " Castle," visit to, 133 ;
Ancient Defensive Earthworks in
connection with, 145
Red Deer Antlers used as food, 187
"Natural History of Aquatic Insects,'
Notice of, 57
Natural History Societies, The
Federation Ideal for, 51; South-
East Union of, 144 ; Annual Con-
gress of East Anglian, 360
Newspaper Science—Poisonous and
Edible Fungi, 191
Notes, Original and Selected, 59, 139,
187, 233, 290, 334, 371, 413,
Ockendon, South, Badger at, 290
Ocynus thynnus at Fowlness, 188
Officers and Council for 1897, 14 ; do.
for 1898, 257 ; Vote of thanks to, 16
Ophrys apifera near Brentwood, 374
Otters, beating to death at Brox-
bourne, 59 ; Slaughter of, at Mann-
ington and Brightlingsea, 233 ; At
Finchingfield, 234 ; In the Lea at
Hoddesdon, 334
Owen, Sir Richard, the late, 144
Owl, Long-eared, Breeding in Essex,
139
Owls needed in Wanstead Park, 234
Oysters, Colchester " Natives " at
Gloucester in Roman times, 141 ;
Fisheries, Colne, inspection of, 223;
Notes on the food of in Essex, 169
Paglesham, Wood Sand-piper at,
371
Palaeolithic Deposits at Hitchin and
their relation to the Glacial Epoch,
49
Paulson, Robert, Cynophallus can-
inus in Epping Forest, 190