This season, 1879, was remarkable because the officials of the E.C.H. adopted a distinctive dress for the first time. R. D. Anderson, in the letter inserted above, claims that he introduced the brown velvet Norfolk jacket which became the hunt uniform until 1904. A. H. Beach (now Maj. A. Hicks Beach) says that he asked permission of the Head Master for the master and whips of the beagles to wear a brown velvet Norfolk jacket; the remainder of the uniform was not introduced till later, and the pictures of this time give a peculiar impression of an ordinary school cap and muffler, with dark knickerbockers and stockings of very varied designs, with the rather picturesque brown velvet Norfolk jacket as a quite distinctive feature. Mr. Gerard Streatfeild writes: “Your letter recalls an excellent season and many happy recollections. The year I was whip (Beach master) the master and whips assumed the velveteen coat as uniform for the first time. Rupert Anderson the _previous_ season (master, E. K. Douglas), one of the whips, wore a velveteen coat throughout the season and was duly admired; so much so that Archie Beach copied it for the hunt the next season, and it has stuck. At the end of the season we secured two bag-foxes from (I think) Leadenhall Market. The result was not brilliant, the first getting away from hounds and getting into Stoke Park, which at that time was strictly preserved for game, and we heard a good deal on the matter; the second fox refused to run at all and finally took refuge behind a stable gate in Dorney Village, and I have a lively recollection of being told off to collect him from thence, no pleasant job as he was very nasty; he was returned to his bag, and what his ultimate fate was I fail to remember. “Dan Lascelles (Hon. D. H. Lascelles) carried a whip most of the season, as Hawke (Lord Hawke) did not come out much as he was anxious to win the School Steeplechase, and thought beagling might make him stale. Hawke was offered the mastership before Beach, but declined the honour and selected being first whip.” On the very first day that Beach took out the beagles a hare began to swim the river with half the pack behind her. She was brought to land by a man in a boat and was killed shortly afterwards. Beach was one of the few masters who entered in the Beagle Book the names of those who ran well. On one occasion the name of Aikman occurs, now Col. Robertson-Aikman, who has been Master of Foxhounds for five and Harriers for twenty-two years. He won more of the prizes for harriers at Peterborough Hound Show than any one else, and his sideboard is covered with cups.