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Gould's note on a Forest Document of the Eighteenth
Century (Ibid. IX., 72). We have had also special com-
munications on the Forest Lodges by Mr. Waller (Ibid.
VII., 82) and on Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, the head-
quarters of our Epping Forest Museum, by Mr. James Cubitt
(Ibid. IX., 166) and Mr. W. W. Love (Ibid. XL, 153). I will
venture also to remind you that in 1894-95 I succeeded in re-dis-
covering most of the old boundary stones on the eastern side of
that wide expanse of country which constituted the Great
Waltham Forest of early times, the area which we now propose
to accept as the Forest district in connection with the Chingford
Museum. The stones in the Navestock district were visited by
the Club on July 28th, 1894 (Essex Naturalist VIII., 213)
aud the complete story of the boundary stones published the
following year (Ibid. IX., 1). The account of the perambulation
of 1641 when these stones were set up was reprinted in a paper
"On the Area of Epping Forest for Faunistic purposes,"
published by our Secretary in 1892 (Ibid. VI., 10). The work
of the Club is recognized also in Mr. E. N. Buxton's excellent
little book Epping Forest, which contains many references to our
publications as well as several contributions from our members.
IX.—MISCELLANEOUS WORK.
Much of the work done by our Club, as in the case of other
local societies, does not admit of being exactly pigeon-holed.
Field meetings naturally call forth communications concerning
cue history of the places visited and of their more interesting
buildings and antiquities, as well as biographical sketches of any
past inhabitants who may have made the place famous. Thus
much topographical and biographical information has found its
way into the reports of our field meetings, adding very much to
their interest, although such information does not strictly speak-
ing come within the province of a scientific society. The
biographies of famous Essex people who have made their mark
as workers in science must, however, always be regarded
as legitimate matter for publication in our pages, and I am
glad to be able to refer to many such communications. The
purely antiquarian and topographical interests centreing in our
County are already well catered for by the Essex Archaeological
Society and the Essex Review, and their is no occasion for any
unnecessary duplication of work in this direction.