14.
has resulted in a great number of new
animals being used in armorial bearings and
include the Emperor Penguin supporting the
arms of the British Antarctic Territory!
Many modern corporations and bodies have
grants of arms which depict animals. The arms
of the B.B.C. granted in 1927 are supported
by two Eagles and the emblem of the World
Health Organisation (formed in 1948) in the
rod of Aesculapius, a Serpent entwined about
a staff (some historians though think it is
a representation of a Guinea Worm being
wound on a forked stick, a method of ancient
origin for removing this parasitic nematode).
Animals have a long and important
history as symbolic emblems and a good solid
read or just a browse through a book on
heraldry is a fascinatingly different view of
animals and also a history of the British
people.
Ref: Boutells Heraldry, J. P. Brooke-Little.
MARK HANSON
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FEERING MARSH by I. P. MISSELBROOK
Part I: HABITAT AND FLORA
In an area as intensively farmed as
North-East Essex, less cultivated places such
as hedgerows, copses, churchyards and mature
gardens are of immense importance to wildlife.
An area, close to my home, that I chose
to study, is even more important in that it is
a habitat suffering decline throughout the