CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 5
THE ORIGIN OF THE CLUB 5
PATRON 6
CONSERVATION 6
SPECIAL MEMOIRS 6
THE ESSEX NATURALIST 6
MUSEUMS 9
PHOTOGRAPHIC AND PICTORIAL SURVEY 10
FIELD MEETINGS 10
ARCHAEOLOGY 13
THE MORANT CLUB 13
JUBILEE OF THE CLUB 14
SPECIALIST GROUPS 15
RECORDERS 15
THE PASSMORE EDWARDS MUSEUM 15
POST-WAR AND THE FUTURE 17
TABLES 1. The Presidents 18
2. Past Presidents surviving to 1980 19
3. Hon. Treasurers 19
4. Hon. Secretaries 19
5. Hon. Excursion (Field Meeting) Secretaries 19
6. Curators of the Club's Museums 20
7. Hon. Editors of the Essex Naturalist 20
8. Publications of the Essex Field Club 20
9. Some Original (Founder) Members 21
Figure 1. (opposite). An extract from the programme for the fiftieth an-
niversary meeting of the Essex Field Club. The meeting was held in the Great
Hall of the (then) Municipal College, West Ham.
Front Cover. The Queen Elizabeth's Lodge, Epping Forest, drawn, in 1893, at
the time when the Essex Field Club was setting up a museum in the Lodge.
From a drawing by H. A. Cole published in Essex Naturalist vol. 7.
Back Cover. Part of the report of an early Essex Field Club meeting, with an
illustration by H. A. Cole. From Essex Naturalist vol. 7.
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