THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.
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Of the Essex Invertebrate Fauna, the Mollusca have,
perhaps, received the most attention. One of our first contribu-
tions to this subject was Mr. Laver's list of the land and fresh-
water Mollusca of the Colchester district (Trans. II., 88). The
later papers relating to the recent and fossil Mollusca of the
County are given below in chronological order :—
" Preliminary List of the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca occurring in the
neighbourhood of Felstead" ; J. French, Essex Nat., II., 1 and 46.
" List of Mollusca occurring in an alluvial deposit of the Cann Valley";
R. W. Christy; Ibid. III.; 7.
" On the Mollusca of the Shell Marl occurring at Felstead and in other
parts of Essex"; J. French, with remarks by W. H. Dalton, Ibid.
III., 11.
" List of Land and Fresh-water Mollusca from the Alluvial Deposit at
Roxwell" ; R. W. Christy and B. B. Woodward, Ibid. III., 176.
" On the occurrence of Cyclostoma elegans in a living state at Felstead" :
J. French, Ibid. IV., 92.
" On the Land and Fresh-water Mollusca collected in Wanstead and the
neighbouring Districts in the Becontree Hundred"; W. Crouch,
Ibid. IV., 202.
" List of Land and Fresh-water Mollusca occurring in the neighbourhood of
Bishop's Stortford" ; E. G. Ingold, Ibid. IV , 215 and V., 202.
" Note on Hydrobia Jenkinsi" ; Edgar A. Smith, Ibid. IV., 212.
" Notes on the Mollusca of the Thames Estuary, with a list of Species
observed" ; A. J. Jenkins, Ibid. V., 220.
" On the occurrence of Crepidula fornicata, L. off the Coast of Essex" ; W.
Crouch, Ibid. Vill., 36; X., 353.
" Pleistocene Non-marine Mollusca from Walton-on-the-Naze" ; W. M.
Webb, Ibid. VIII., 160.
" Note on the Shells from the Brick Earth at Chelmsford" ; W. M. Webb,
IM. IX., 19.
" The Non-marine Mollusca of Essex" ; W. M. Webb, Ibid. X., 27 ; 65.
" The Post-Pliocene Non-marine Mollusca of Essex" ; A. S. Kennard and
B. B. Woodward ; with contributions by W. M. Webb, Ibid. X., 87.
" Notes on the Mollusca (Post-Pliocene and Recent) of Felstead"; A. S.
Kennard and B. B. Woodward, Ibid. X., 185.
" The Post-Pliocene Non-marine Mollusca of Ilford" ; A. S. Kennard and
B. B. Woodward, Ibid. XI., 213.
" The Non-marine Mollusca of the Walton Crag"; A. S. Kennard and
B. B. Woodward, Ibid. XL, 216.
" Pleistocene Non-marine Mollusca from Clacton-on-Sea" ; W. M. Webb,
Ibid. XL, 225.
" Notes on the Mollusc Paludestrina jenkinsi, Smith, in Essex and else-
where "; A. S. Kennard and B. B. Woodward, Ibid. XL, 288.
I think this remarkable series of contributions speaks well
for the activity of the malacologists. Our entomologists have
also shown considerable activity, but there is yet an immense