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Naturalist. He was for many years a Fellow of the lannean and 

 Zoological Societies, and was a J. P. for Essex and Suffolk. 



Whilst at Colchester Dr. Bree made a large number of friends, by 

 whom he was very highly esteemed. He always took the greatest 

 interest in the town and its institutions, and delivered many able 

 lectures at the Literary Institute. Early in life —when the Reform 

 Bill of 1832 was passed — Dr. Bree was a Whig, but a few years 

 later, he changed his views, and up to the time of his death he 

 was a staunch Conservative, and a knight of the Primrose League. 

 He left Colchester in 1881, and afterwards resided at Long 

 Melford, where he died on Sunday, the 17th of October, 1886, 

 aged 75. Dr. Bree was seized with paralysis in June, 1881, and 

 deprived of the entire use of his right side, and he then resigned 

 his connection with the hospital. He bore his long illness with the 

 greatest patience and resignation. His remains were interred in 

 the Colchester Cemetery, having been brought from Long Melford 

 for that purpose. The bulk of his collection of skins is now in the 

 possession of Mr, W. H. Harwood, of Colchester, who purchased 

 it from his representatives shortly after his death. Although con- 

 sisting mainly of foreign and other specimens, a large number are 

 from Essex, including several of great interest (See p. 34). 



CLARKE, Joseph, F.S.A., of The Roos, Saffron 

 Walden, is our veteran Essex naturalist and archaeologist, and has 

 supplied much valuable information for use in this work. To his 

 efforts we are largely, if not chiefly, indebted for the magnificent 

 collection of birds in the Walden Museum, a large number of the 

 specimens in which were either acquired through his efforts or 

 collected by him personally in his younger days at Yarmouth and 

 elsewhere. A considerable number of specimens of the commoner 

 inland birds were presented by him to the British Museum Col- 

 lection before 1836. Besides supplying many valuable verbal 

 and written communications as to his reminiscences of Essex 

 birds, he has kindly allowed me to make many very interesting 

 extracts from a book of memoranda (24) in which he entered 

 miscellaneous observations and notes of rare birds occurring round 

 Saffron Walden between the years 1820 and 1845, or thereabouts. 



DALE, Samuel (1659 ? — 1739) is, perhaps, chiefly known 

 as the neighbour, disciple, and literary executor of Ray ; but Professor 

 Boulger {Journal of Botany, xxi, 193 and 225), claims for him 

 as a botanist much original talent and a high pitch of accuracy in 



