The Essex Field Club
Founded 1880
The Essex Field Club offers a programme of over 40 outdoor meetings a year, covering plants, fungi, mosses,
lichens, mammals, birds, invertebrates, and geology, with further indoor meetings in winter. Through its
Recorders, the Field Club maintains detailed scientific records of the Essex flora, fauna and geology that are
important for local and national purposes and in advising on the management and protection of sites. Members
receive a Newsletter three limes a year, with more scientific papers published annually in the Essex Naturalist.
The Field Club is also associated with the publication of occasional monographs.
Annual membership subscription:
Ordinary individual subscriptions £10
Under cighteens £5
Family subscriptions £12.50 (which includes one set of publications per family)
Corporate subscriptions (libraries, organisations, companies, consultancies, etc) £15
Subscriptions should be sent to:
Membership Secretary, John Bath. 34 Chestnut Avenue, BILLERICAY, Essex CM12 9JF
Publications: the Essex Naturalist and the Essex Field Club Newsletter are free to fully paid up members.
Occasional publications are made available at a reduced rate or free to members.
ESSEX FIELD CLUB OFFICERS FOR 1999/2000
President: Peter Allen BSc, PhD., 13 Churchgate, Cheshunt, Herts EN8 9NB. Tel: (01992) 630661
Vice-President: Professor E. Benton, 13 Prion,' Street, Colchester COl 2PY
Past Presidents: Professor C T Ingold DSc; P W Glassborow; W R Masefield; D R Scott; A J R Snelling;
A Boniface BSc, MSc; Lt. Col. A M Emmet MBE, TD, MA, FRES, FLS; J Dobson;
M W Hanson BSc, M.LBiol; D A Smith; Canon D J A Agassiz PhD; J Ison MA, M.I.Biol, C.Biol; K. J.
Adams BSc, PhD; R.G. Payne, MSc, M.LBiol; C.W.Plant BSc, F.R.E.S.
General Secretary: Jeremy Dagley, MA., PhD., 82 Whitehall Gardens, Chingford, E4 6EJ.
Tel: 0181-529-4815.
Meetings Secretaries: Tony and Judith Boniface, 40 Pentland Avenue, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 4AZ. Tel:
(01245)266316.
Mem bership Secretary and Treasurer: John Rath, 34 Chestnut Avenue, Billericay, Essex
CM12 9JF (to whom all annual subscriptions should be sent). Tel: (01277) 651890.
Editorial Team: Essex Naturalist: Dr KenAdams, Dr Peter Allen, Dr Jeremy Dagley, Dr Chris
Gibson, Mr Peter Harvey (Technical Editor).
Editor: Newsletter: Peter Harvey BSc, 32 Lodge Lane. Grays, Essex RM'16 2YP.
Minuting Secretary: Jeremy Dagley MA., PhD., 82 Whitehall Gardens, Chingford, E4 6EJ.
Tel: 0181-529-4815'.
Ordinary Members of Council: Dr KenAdams, Dr Annette Ford, Mark Hanson, Martin Heywood, Roger
Payne, Charles Watson.
Bird Group Chairman: John Bath (01277) 651890.
Botany Group Chairman: Ken Adams BSc, PhD 0181-508-7863.
Fungi Group Secretary: Tony Boniface (01245) 266316.
Mammal Group Chairman: John Dobson (01245) 224408.
Moth Group Chairman: Brian Goodey (01206) 841224.