Preparation of the Report.
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certain names without special recognition of services ren-
dered.
First and foremost, our member Mr. J,. 0. Shenstone, of
Colchester, has laboured constantly for us during the pro-
gress of the work, kindly visiting and reporting upon any
case of damage of which the details were recorded in-
sufficiently in the first instance, and has always with the
greatest readiness responded to appeals for information,
regardless of any personal inconvenience to which my
frequent applications must, I am afraid, have often subjected
him. The value and extent of Mr. Shenstone's services will be
best estimated by the frequency with which his observations
are quoted in the body of the Report.
Amongst others to whom I am under an obligation for
assistance of various kinds, I may mention the following :—
Mr. James Jackson, of Wivenhoe Hall, has been good
enough to furnish the detailed analysis of the whole amount
of damage given in a subsequent section of the Report.
Mr. E. A. Fitch, our Vice-President, has supplied many
notes from Maldon and neighbourhood.
Mr. E. B. Knobel, F.G.S., Sec. E.A.S., of Bocking, has
forwarded a report from his own neighbourhood, and some
valuable notes from those parts of the area of structural
damage visited by him.
Mr. F. H. Meggy has kindly supplied notes from Chelms-
ford and vicinity.
Mr. Alfred P. Wire, of Leytonstone, has communicated on
my behalf with many of his friends in various parts of Essex.
Mrs. Dennis, of Layer Rows, has been good enough to
furnish an excellent report from Layer-de-la-Haye and neigh-
bourhood.
Mr. E. T. Dowson has supplied many notes from Suffolk
and Norfolk, in a communication to Mr. Symons.
Mr. C. F. Hayward, F.S.A., has kindly collected several
reports from residents in London.
For assistance given in the geological portions of the
Report, I have great pleasure in expressing my thanks to our
President, Mr. T. V. Holmes, who, as already mentioned,