This last year has seen the effective demise of the Passmore Edwards
Museum with the result that the Field Club collections, upon which the museum was
founded, desperately need to be re-housed. Ken Adams has been working towards
this end, firstly helping to produce an inventory of the various holdings and assessing
their future storage needs and secondly negotiating with the London Borough of
Newham and the Corporation of London through John Besent, Superintendent of
Epping Forest on the transfer of the collections to what will hopefully be a purpose-
built modern storage/ exhibition/ research facility at High Beach. Importantly this new
building would give the Field Club a new headquarters. However negotiations are still
underway and the Club are required to raise a substantial amount of money towards
the cost and once again Ken has been contacting potential sponsors.
Sadly Peter Harvey has informed me of the death of John Felton in 1994
although not from Essex, he determined or confirmed the identity of much of the
critical aculeate material collected by Peter Harvey in Essex.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I would like to thank Mrs Sheila Leswell, Miss Nichola Darlow and Mrs Cherril Darlow
and Mrs Susan Smolen for their help with the preparation of this journal.
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