12.
ESSEX ROOK SURVEY
Are rooks on the decline? How has
Dutch Elm Disease affected them? Please
help with this Field Club survey. When you
see a rookery, just note down approximately
wheer (six figure grid reference or
sufficient description to get one), the
number of nests, the date and the species
of tree being nested in, if you can identify
it. In due course please send all records
to Michael Parker, 14 Ridgeway, Ingatestone
Essex.
ESSEX FIELD CLUB EXHIBITION at the Passmore
Edwards Museum
A special exhibition is being put on in
the Passmore Edwards, to celebrate our forth-
coming Centenary. It will be on from 25th
January to 22nd March 1980, and we hope you
will come along to see it. Here is a quota-
tion from the Museum's advertising brochure:
"A chance meeting between Professor Raphael
Meldola, W. J. Argent and William Cole in
Epping Forest in 1869 is traditionally the