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THE COMING OF AGE OF
the Club is much indebted to those who have contributed to the
series :—
1. General Account of the Epping Forest Museum, with a Description of Queen
Elizabeth's Lodge. By W. Cole (in preparation).
2. Notes on the Romano-British Settlement at Chigwell, Essex, with a Descrip-
tion of the Articles exhibited in the Epping Forest Museum. By I. Chalkley Gould-
3. The Essex Museum of Natural History. A Short Statement of the Consti-
tution, Aims and Methods of the Museum. By W. Cole.
4. A Brief Sketch of the Crag Formation of East Anglia. An outline of the
nature, position, &c. of the beds which have furnished the collection of Crag Fossils in
the Essex Museum of Natural History. By W. H, Dalton.
5. A Handbook to the Collection of Pre-historic Objects in the Essex Museum of
Natural History. By F. W. Reader.
Although I have undertaken in this address to give an
account of work actually accomplished rather than attempt to
point out the future needs of the Club, I cannot refrain from
drawing attention briefly to the requirements of our museums.
Although the collections brought together by the unflagging zeal
of our Curator and the generous contributions of our members
and friends may be fairly described as both rich in material and
most thoroughly appropriate, there still remains very much to be
done to bring the museums up to that standard of excellence
which the past record of the Club leads us to look for. There
is still scope for that organised and co-operative system of collect-
ing which I advocated in 1880 (Trans. I., 20) in order to help fill
the gaps yet existing in our series. Still more may we plead for
the means to enable us to classify and arrange the collections
with the greatest effect, for which purpose more cabinets and
fittings are required for both and especially for the Epping
Forest Museum, the re-equipment of which has been made
incumbent upon us by the recent restoration of the building.
VIII.—THE CLUB IN ITS RELATIONS TO
EPPING FOREST.
Established as we were in the year 1880 in the Forest
District, and about the period when that splendid tract of
country had been rescued from the hands of its depredators by
the public spirit of the Corporation of London, it is but natural
that we should have taken, as in fact it was our duty as a
body of naturalists to take, the greatest interest in its wel-
fare. Looking back to the history of our connection with