3.
PERSONALLY SPEAKING - DAVID SCOTT
We continue below the occasional series of
interviews published in the Bulletin.
David Scott, as you will now be aware, is the
Club Council's nomination for President. By the
time you read this he may have indeed been elected.
David is well qualified for the nomination:
although probably our youngest President he has been
an active member of the Club for fifteen years. He
has served on Council, is an ex-chairman of the
Mammal Group, has lead many meetings and written
contributions to the Essex Naturalist. He lives
near Chelmsford and works as an area manager for
Haslers, a firm of agricultural merchants. He has
a wife, Margaret, and two active young sons Julian
and William. He is a good general naturalist, being
especially interested, as many of you will know, in
mammals, reptiles and insects.
Bobron: Do you remember when you first joined the
E.F.C. and who introduced you?
David: In 196l after being a member of the British
Naturalist's Association at Buckhurst Hill since 1953.
A local friend of the family, Mrs C. Haskins, took
me on the E.F.C. Fungus Foray in Autumn 1960.
Bobron: How did you first become interested in
reptiles and amphibians?
David: Since boyhood days at Forest Edge, Buckhurst
Hill, initially finding toads in drains at the age of
three or four and later witnessing the toad migration
to spawn in Knighton Wood Ponds. First encounters
with reptiles in my early teens as I became more
mobile.
Bobron: Have you always been interested in Natural