PREFACE. 
Tse Bury Naturat History Society haying now been in existence 
four years, has resolved to publish this report for the use of its 
members and others to whom it may be of interest. 
We have frequently felt the want of a list, showing our local Flora 
and Fauna, for reference. Much information has been brought before 
our Society, the utility of which to us will be greatly enhanced by 
this publication, and we believe that it may also prove useful to many 
who are not on our list of members. 
There are several advantages to be derived from such a record 
however imperfect it may be, and it has therefore been decided 
not to wait until something like completeness could be attained, but 
print the information we have now. 
Among the advantages which the existence of such a record offers 
are :—instruction to beginners as to where particular specimens may 
be found or looked for with a probability of success ; an easy book of 
reference, to find the scientific name of a specimen, together with its 
classification, the English name being known; an addition (though 
slight) to the general knowledge of the Natural History of the King- 
dom, and, above all (so far as our Society is concerned), an indication 
of the work that still remains to be done, by means of a detailed 
statement of the facts that we have so far ascertained or verified. 
The filling up of many wide gaps will be facilitated by a reference 
to these lists, as they show what information we are short of. 
Tt will be seen at once that, in several branches of Natural History, 
a great deal remains to be done. We present no geological report ; 
we have recorded nothing of the Hepatic, Mosses, and Fungi, nor of 
microscopic animalcules and plants; the Mollusca are all but 
untouched, and the very interesting study of objects collected by pond- 
dredging seems to have found no favour with us. It would be easy to 
point out many such deficiencies, but the work of a general Natural 
History Society being of such vast extent as to be practically without 
limit, a young Society such as ours may be expected to touch but 
lightly for a while on the more difficult and abstruse branches of its 
study. 
Still we exclude no section of Natural History, taking the term in 
its widest sense. 
This was our programme at the foundation of the Society, and it 
has received the sanction of the numerous members who have since 
joined it. 
The prominence of any one branch of inquiry beyond another 
indicates the popularity of that division, compared with the others, 
amongst our members. The greatest number of our hard workers 
