THE ESSEX NATURALIST: BEING THE Journal of the Esser Field Club, EDITED BY WILLIAM COLE, F.L.S., F.E.S., Honorary Secretary. VOLUME X. JANUARY, 1897-DECEMBER, 1898. "Men that undertake only one district are much more likely to advance "Seldom was ever any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this [The authors alone are responsible for the statements and opinions contained in their PUBLISHED BY THE CLUB, BUCKHURST HILL, ESSEX. 1898. want to read the works of God." S. ANTONY. "They who would advance in knowledge should lay down this as a fundamental rule, not to take words for things." LockE. "There is nothing, sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible." DR. JOHNSON. "Thus neither the sensual mind, has any occasion to contemn experiments as unpleasant, nor the idle as burdensome, or intollerable, nor the virtuous as unworthy of his labors. And the same influence they may have, on all other moral imperfections of human Nature. What room can there be for low, and little things in a mind so usefully and successfully employd? What ambitious disquiets can torment that man, who has so much glory before him, for which there are only requir'd the delightful Works of his hands? What dark, or melancholy passions can overshadow his heart, whose senses are always full of so many various productions, of which the least progress, and success, will affect him with an innocent joy? What anger, envy, hatred, or revenge can long torment his breast, whome not only the greatest, and noblest objects, but every sand, every pible, every grass, every earth, every fly can divert? To whom the return of every season, every month, every day do suggest a circle of most pleasant operations? If the Antients prescrib'd it as a sufficient Remedy, against such violent passions, only to repeat the Alphabet over whereby there was leisure given to the mind, to recover itself from any sudden fury: then how much more effectual Medicines, against the same distempers, may be fetch'd from the whole Alphabet of Nature, which represents itself to our consideration, in so many infinit Volumes! BISHOP SPRAT'S History of the Royal Society of London for the Improvement of Natural Knowledge. 1667. INDEX TO VOLUME X. Abnormal Flowers of Lychnis and Acipenser sturio at Maldon, 335 Agreement between Corporation of "Aggressive resemblance " in a Agriculture in Essex, 64 Albatross at Linton, on the Essex Algæ, Freshwater, a sketch of their Algæ, Marine, Colouring Matters of, ALLEN, W., Essex Characeæ, 190 Alterations in Rules, 255, 406 Amphydasis prodromaria in February, Annual Congress of "East Anglian Annual Reports of Council (1896), 16; Anser cinereus near Broxbourne, 234 Antlers of Red Deer used as food, 187 Arctia caja, Dark variety of, at Shen- Asio otus breeding in Essex, 139 BARRETT, CHARLES G., Protection of Insects in danger of Extermination, BATEMAN, J., Introduction of the BENHAM, W. G., drawing of Clift Bernicula brenta near Broxbourne, 234 Birds of Epping Forest, 56; Protec- tion of in Essex, 56, 133, 274; Black-headed Gulls in Essex; a visit BOULGER, PROF., Federation ideal for paper on Ray's Contemporaries in Bonskell, Frank, Notice of paper by, Bowers Gifford, Golden Orioles at, 60, Braintree, Saponaria vaccaria at, 373; Pre-historic relics from, Exhibition BRANFILL, GENERAL. Badger at Brentwood, Earthquake of December |