Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the many people who have contributed to this booklet, among them -
Mr. Brian Goodey, Dr. Peter Kirby, Rev. David Agassiz, Mr. Derek Smith, Dr. K. J. Adams,
Mr. John Dobson, Mrs, Rita Jopson and Mr, David Scott of the Essex Field Club; Mr. J. Heath
(Colchester and Essex Museum), Mr. Simon Lace (Vestry House Museum), Mr. Roger Payne
and Mr. John Skinner (Southend Museum), L. M. Pole (Saffron Walden Museum), the Curator
and staff of the Passmore Edwards Museum; Dr. K. Bascombe (Waltham Abbey Historical
Society); Mr. John Besent (Superintendent of Epping Forest); Mr. L. G. Buckland, Mr. Mike
Edwards, Mrs. Georgina Green, Mr. C. F. Hanson, Mr. John Hopwood, Mr. Frederick Marns
(calligraphy, front cover), Mrs. P. Moxey (Epping Forest Conservation Centre), Ms. B. N.
Matson, Ms. Doreen Sparrow and other members of the South Essex Natural History Society,
Mr. & Mrs. Roberts of Paglesham; The Forestry Commission; Lynn Tait Gallery, Leigh-on-Sea;
Cambridge Evening News; Collins the publishers for allowing me to reproduce the illustrations
of Melville's elms; Mr. Peter Sell (Botany School, Cambridge) and I would particularly like
to thank Dr. Oliver Rackham of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, for much useful discussion, for
looking over the manuscript and permission to quote from his book on Hatfield Forest; and Mrs.
Sheila Leswell for much time and expertise put into the typing of the manuscript.
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