No. 1. E. F. C. Museum Leaflets. Price 1d.
A SHORT ACCOUNT
OF THE
Epping Forest Museum.
[The present leaflet is issued to give visitors to the Museum
some idea of its purpose and scope. A more extended "Guide,"
which will contain an account of the Lodge, and a summary of the
Natural History, Geology, and Antiquities of the Forest, will be
issued in the spring of 1896.]
The Epping Forest Museum has been established by the Essex
Field Club, mainly to serve two purposes—(1) To afford plain infor-
mation about the animals, plants, geology, and antiquities of the
district, and so promote a love for the out-of-door study of Natural
History, &c., among the intelligent visitors to the Forest, and (2) to
form ultimately a store-house for the preservation of authentic series
of forest specimens, not only as a matter of scientific importance,
but also as aids to the studies of the many amateurs who frequent
the Forest as one of the best "all-round" hunting grounds for the
naturalist in the London district.
With the permission and enlightened recognition of the useful-
ness of such an exhibition by the Epping Forest Committee of the
Corporation of London (who have met the wishes of the Club in
the kindest way), the collections have been housed in the Banqueting
Room of the antique building known as "Queen Elizabeth's Hunting