PRESENTATION TO MR. WILLIAM COLE. 131
The foundation of the Essex Field Club, in 1880, was due to your initiative.
Since then, for a quarter of a century, you have acted continuously as its
Honorary Secretary and have edited the whole of its publications—a combination
of services which we imagine to be unique. To your labours during this long
period are due, in the main, the leading position the Club now holds among
Local Scientific Societies, and also the establishment of its two Museums (the
Epping Forest Museum, at Chingford, and the Essex Museum of Natural
History, at Stratford), of both of which you are now Curator.
In the Rescue of Epping Forest, you took an active part, and you have
watched jealously over its interests ever since.
We feel strongly that these long-continued and disinterested labours in
promoting locally the Cause of Natural Science deserve formal and public
recognition ; and the present time (in the twenty-fifth year of the Society which
you founded and have served so assiduously) seems peculiarly fitting for the
purpose.
We ask you, therefore, to accept our grateful thanks, together with the
accompanying Purse of One Hundred and Ten Guineas. The latter is, of course,
no more than a slight token of our appreciation of your labours, any adequate
remuneration being obviously impossible.
Among those who have subscribed (169 in number, the subscription being
limited to one guinea) are the High Sheriff of Essex; the Chairman of the Essex
County Council; the Mayors of West Ham and of Chelmsford; the Chairman of
the Epping Forest Committee of the Corporation of London; all the four
Verderers of Epping Forest; the President and many Fellows of the Royal
Society; many Fellows of other Learned Societies; the President, the eight
Past-Presidents, and numerous Members of the Essex Field Club; and others
who have been associated with you in your work, or have admired it.
Whilst thus thanking you in particular, we desire also to thank your brothers,
Messrs. B. G. and H. A. Cole, and your sisters, Miss Cole and Miss Jane Cole,
all of whom have helped you throughout, as we know, most untiringly.
We trust that you and they may long continue the work you have carried on
so well, and for such a lengthened period.
Adams, H. J., F.E.S.
Avenell, George
Avery, John. C.A., F.S.S.
Baddeley, W. H.
Barnes, H.J.
Bartleet, H. S.
Benham, C. E.
Biggs, Miss M. M.
Bird, James
Boake, Arthur, F.C.S.
Boake, E. J., b.a.
Boswell, R. Bruce, M.A.
Boulger, Prof. G. S., F.L.S., f.g.s.
Bowles, E. Augustus, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S.
Brand. F.J.
Briscoe, A. E., B.SC
Brown, Horace T., ll.d., f.r.s., f.c.s., f.g.s.
Brown, W. H.
Bryan, Colonel, c.e.
Bullen, Rev. R. Ashington, b.a., F.L.S.
Buxton, Edward North. J.P., D.L., etc.
(Verderer, Epping Forest)
Buxton, Mrs. E. North
Buxton, Gerald, J.P.
Buxton, Sir T. Fowell, Bart., K.C.M.G., D.L.,
etc. (Verderer, Epping Forest)
Buxton, Lady Victoria [Essex)
Buxton, T. F. Victor, J.P. (High Sheriff of
Byford, J., junr. (Mayor of West Ham)
Cansdale, W. D.,f.e.s.
Chancellor, F., J.P. (Mayor of Chelmsford)
Christy Miller, F.L.S. (President, Essex Field
Club)
Clapham, Mrs. E.
Clark, J, A., f.e.s.
Clark, Percy, b.a.
Clarke, F. C.
Coburn, H. I.
Colchester, The Bishop of
Coles, Mrs. Harriet
Colsell, Robert
Corcoran, Bryan
Dalton, W. H., F.C.S., F.C.S.
Dawson, Charles J,
Dent, Francis
Dewick, Rev. E. S., F.S.A., F.G.S.
Duffield, P. H.
Dymond, T. S., F.C.S., F.I.C
Edwards, J. Passmore
Edwards, Stanley, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S.
Elliott, F. W.
Evans, Sir John,K.C.B., D.C.L., LL.D., F.R.S., etc.