76 note on the white-tailed eagle and salmon. 



Section K. 



Mr. H. Wager informed the delegates of the Corresponding 

 Societies that the Section had appointed a Committee to consider 

 the Geographical Distribution of Mosses, a subject of interest 

 to all the Corresponding Societies. 



Mr. Vaughan Cornish congratulated the Corresponding 

 Societies on the result of the discussion on Coast Erosion, at 

 Bristol, last year, initiated by Mr. Whitaker. Seldom, if ever, 

 had the Admiralty acted so promptly before. The meeting then 

 came to an end. 



T. V. Holmes, Sec. Cor. Soc. Committee, 



Delegate, Essex Field Club. 



NOTE ON THE OCCURRENCE OF THE 

 WHITE-TAILED EAGLE {HALI/ETUS 

 ALBICILLA) AND THE SALMON (SALMO 

 SALAR) AT HARWICH IN 1666. 



By miller CHRISTY, F.L S. 



TTyHILST examining recently some documents among the 

 VV State Papers (Domestic Series) belonging to the reign of 

 Charles II., preserved at the Public Record Office, I came by 

 accident across one letter containing a very quaintly-expressed 

 and curious item relating to the avi-fauna of the County of Essex. 

 The letter was written from Harwich on the 20th of October 

 1666 by one Francis Newby, a servant of the Navy Com- 

 missioners at Harwich. It runs as follows' : — 



Harw''*', Octob"" 20"^, 1666. 

 My deere friend, 



J haue writt three seuerall Letters to you, of w^"" I haue had 

 noe Answere of the Rec' of any of them, w""" makes me Doute of 

 your non [?] helthe. 



for Newes, I haue Not any, onely yesterday lieere lighted 

 vpon the Rope house one the Greene^ a Mighty Greate Eagell. 

 from whence she Cam is Not knowne. she was kild by one of the 

 Caipenters belonging to his Maf" yard heere. her wings are 7 

 foote od jnches long, one of her Clawse being vpwards of nine 

 jnches long, 'tis jmagined y' she Cam from beyond the Sease, 



1 state Papers, Domestic, Charles II., vol. 175, no. 120. 



2 " The Store-Houses to the Rope Walke " are shown on the Green in the general view 

 of Harwich given in the beginning of Dale's History and Antiquities of Harwich and 

 Dovevcourt (London, 40 , 1730). 



