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NO. 6, VOL. v.] Price, with Plate, 9d. [JUNE, 1891. 



The 



Essex Naturalist: 



BEIXG THE 



JOURNAL 



OF THE 



ESSEX FIELD CLUB, 



EDITED EV 



WILLIAM COLE, 



Hotiorary Secretary, 



(f n t c n t s 



On the Range of the Primrose and the Bardfield Oxiip {Primula elai'ior) in North- 

 western Essex.— Ky J. French ; with remarks by Miller Christv, F.L.S. 



(Concluded) 121 



On a Female Specimen of the Common Rorqual (Baltenofitcra iinisciiliis), captured 



near Burnham. By Walter Croich, F.Z.S. (With Plate H'.) 124 



The Essex Field Club Meeting at Higham Park, Epping Forest, and 123rd Ordinary 



Meeting. (W'itk Illustration) 129 



Correspondence. Boulder Clay in Essex. W. H. Dalton, F.Cj.S., and J. French ... 133 



Notes, Original and Selected.— Badger at Asheldham ; .\nother Rorqual in Crouch river; 

 .\ Swallow's "Pendent Bed and Procreant Cradle " ; Homing Instincts of A^/a ar^o<v<i ; 

 .Sea Lamprey in the Colne ; A Voracious Eel ; Coleophora vibicigerella in Essex ; Esscv 

 Earthworms — .\n .Appeal; Parasitic I'orticellie ; Uncommon Plants at Felstead ; Cook's 

 " Illusirations of British Fungi " ; Essex Water Supply 135-136 



More Epping Forest. {With Four Illustrations) 136 



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