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miscellaneous pamphlets.
MUSEUMS
The Club has organised and is responsible
for the curating of two local museums. One of
these, The Epping Forest Museum, opened in
1895, is, by arrangement with the Corporation
of the City of London, housed in the interest-
ing old Tudor building known as "Queen Eliza-
beth's Lodge" at Chingford. As its name
implies it is devoted mainly to objects illust-
rating the natural history, etc., of the Epping
Forest district. The other and much larger
museum, the Essex Museum of Natural History,
opened in 1900, is contained in a special
building, adjoining the West Ham Municipal
College in the Romford Road, Stratford. It is
a scientifically planned county museum, and the
expenses of its maintenance, other than those
of curating, are borne by the Borough of West
Ham in accordance with an agreement between the
Essex Field Club and the Corporation.
LIBRARY
The Club's Library now comprises some 5,500
volumes, dealing largely with the natural
history, topography, geology and antiquities of
Essex, but also including most of the standard
works on botany, zoology, geology, etc. The
Library is particularly rich in sets of
publications of the Scientific Societies of the
British Isles.
Books may be borrowed by members at the
ordinary meetings of the Club and also on any
week day between the hours of 10 a.m. and