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of high tide, so if you choose that way, take the moon at 14 or
28 days old. I think through Burnham is preferable. Our
average attendance at Evening School was twelve, not eight.
October 9th.
I thank you so much for your very kind letter. I am none
the worse—I hope much the better—for that night. My
excellent schoolmaster, Leeds, and myself have often had some
very strange experiences getting on and off to the Technical
meetings. I do not mind. I enjoy a little adventure. Last
week was rather too much. I shall look forward very much to
your visit and hope it will be fine. I am expecting a Mr.
Martins of Threadneedle Street, Chelmsford, in a few weeks
with a prayer desk for the church. I should probably meet
him at Burnham-on-Crouch, and row down.
If you could meet us we might row down the Crouch
together. It is very pleasant with tide, but a very hard pull
against. The King of our Island, as he was always called,
C. C. Harvey, Esq., has just passed away. For nearly 70 years
he has been a leading spirit of Foulness. He will be greatly
missed. I do not think my journey is worth publishing. I was
returning from the Ruridecanal Conference at Leigh on-Sea.
(Signed) R. H. Marsh.
Our Evening School has made a very fair start.
COLLECTIONS IN THE
ESSEX AND CHELMSFORD MUSEUM.
BY WALTER CROUCH, F.Z.S.
THE early history and main facts concerning the establish-
ment, growth, and career of this Museum during a period
of 65 years have already been recorded by Mr. Edmund Durrant
in the Essex Review (vol. ii., 1893, pp. 113-118.)
Since that time, the whole of the collections—then in fair
order—have been packed away, and many of them removed to a
cottage where they remained several years; while last autumn
they again suffered removal from the old head-quarters—the
premises having been required by the owners for the enlarge-
ment of the Chelmsford Club—to vacant rooms, in the
Mechanics' Institute, then defunct; on the other side of the bridge.
Having lately spent some time in cleaning and re-arranging