TRANSACTIONS
OF
THE ESSEX FIELD CLUB.1
I.
The Ancient Fauna of Essex.
By Henry Woodward, LL.D., F.E.S., F.G.S.,
Keeper of the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History).
[A Lecture delivered to the members of the Club, at the British Museum
of Natural History, South Kensington, on Saturday, May 13th, 1882.]
The Essex Field Club is fortunate in being located in
a suburban district where an open space is reserved of a
larger extent than that of all the parks and pleasure-
grounds of the metropolis united. Six of the larger parks
combined do not contain more than 1800 acres, whereas
Epping Forest still claims between five and six thousand
acres. To your Society now belongs in some degree the task
of jealously guarding for the public that wide tract of
woodland which has been so munificently bestowed on the
people of London. The trees and wild plants need friendly
care and fostering, and if, as it is to be hoped, our native
song-birds and animals are to have a fair chance of existence,
"nor gun, nor snare, nor limed twig" should be permitted
by the Conservators and Verderers within their domains.
1 [Much inconvenience having been occasioned in cataloguing and
referring to our publications by shortened titles which by no means
represent the scope of the Society, the Council has authorised the Editor
to use the above words in future in the 'Transactions' and other issues
of the Club. Writers and cataloguers making references to our publi-
cations are requested to quote them as "Transactions" or "Proceedings"
(as the case may be) of "The Essex Field Club," the present part being
the commencement of the third volume.—Ed.]
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