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hostess—a hope now, alas, never to be fulfilled—that yet another
visit should be paid by us at a later date.
Miss Willmott's monumental work on "The Genus Rosa,"
generously presented to our Library by the author, is another
evidence of her kindly interest in our Club and remains a constant
memorial of her esteem.
Others will refer to the deceased lady's remarkable botanical
and horticultural attainments, which have given her a world-
wide celebrity, her musical and her other gifts : for us, remains
a gracious memory of a friendly personality, ever ready to share
with others of like tastes those peculiar joys which a love of
flowers affords and which she herself enjoyed in such abundant
measure.
Alfred Willingale.
On Wednesday, October 10th, 1934, passed away, at the ripe
old age of 91 years, Alfred Willingale, of Loughton, last survivor
of the three young men who, in March 1866, were sentenced, in
default of paying a fine, to seven days' imprisonment with
hard labour for lopping wood in Epping Forest—a right which
they and their fathers before them had exercised for centuries,
and which we now know to have been perfectly legal ; but which
at the date of their conviction was debatable and contested.
The imprisonment of these young men was one of the earliest
episodes in the long "fight for the Forest" which happily
culminated in its preservation for the use and enjoyment of the
people, as determined by the Epping Forest Act of 1878.
Razorbill at Walthamstow.—Mr. E. T. Nicholson reports the
occurrence of a Razorbill (Alca torda) on the Banbury Reservoir on
November 11, 1934.
Continental Jay and Scandinavian Lesser Black-backed Gull in
Essex.—Our member, Mr. James W. Campbell, records, in British Birds
for February, 1935, the occurrence of Garrulus g. glandarius f. at Layer
Marney on Nov. 22, 1934, and of Larus f. fuscus f. in his own collection,
which was killed in April, 1917, at Kelvedon. Both these are new records
for Essex.—Editor.
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