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scientifically recording such uncommon phenomena when they
occurred. From this point of view it was well received by the
scientific public and by the Press, and at the time of its publica-
tion was the only complete monograph of a British earthquake.
The Herefordshire earthquake of Dec. 17th, 1896, was also
felt in our County (Essex Naturalist, IX., 258; X., 240) and
formed the subject of an excellent monograph by Dr. C. Davison
published in 1899 by .the aid of a grant from the Royal Society.
This memoir is cast on very much the same lines as our Report,
but is worked out much more exhaustively, the author coming
to the same conclusion respecting the origin of the earthquake
that we had arrived at concerning the Essex earthquake, viz.,
that it may have been connected with the process of "faulting"
in the geological sense. It is of interest to note also that Dr.
Davison estimates that in "concentrated severity the Essex
earthquake far exceeded the Hereford earthquake," although
the total area disturbed was greater in the case of the latter.3
IV.—ANTHROPOLOGY.
At the beginning of the Club's existence we decided to
restrict our actual work in the domain of archaeology to the
study of that period which, although perhaps not definable
within any rigid limits, is known generally as the pre-historic or
non-historic (Inaugural Address, Trans. I., 18). The later
archaeology had been and still is well looked after by the Essex
Archaeological Society, and although we have generally made a
point of visiting places of archaeological interest in the course of
our field-meetings we have not laid ourselves out for the publica-
tion of detailed archaeological papers. Some small amount of
unavoidable overlap may have occurred, but I do not think that
we have encroached very seriously upon our neighbour's domain.
It has been and will I hope always continue to be the policy of
the Club to treat archaeology rather in its scientific aspect as a
branch of the modern science of anthropology.
With respect to pre-historic archaeology we may take credit
for having made substantial contributions during the past
twenty-one years. The chapters on the archaeology of Essex
for the Victoria History of the County which have been written
3 The Hereford Earthquake of December 17th, 1896. By Charles Davison, Sc.D., F.G S.,
Birmingham, Cornish Bros., 1899. p. 224.