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years ago by a very aged farm labourer that he had once known of a nest 
near Chelmsford; and there is a hamlet called Bustard Green, not far from 
Dunmow. Yarrell, too, mentions an advertisement in the ‘ Spectator’ for 
1712, where an estate was to be let at Heydon, near Saffron Walden, with 
“woods of large timber where is all game, even to the Pheasant and 
Bustard.” He considered that in all probability the Bustard had not been 
a very rare bird in Essex; but he did not think that it had ever been 
abundant, for the county has not—nor has it had for a very long time 
past—those large open and uncultivated tracts which form the strongholds of 
the species. The Essex specimen (exhibited at the meeting) was purchased 
by Mr. C. Smoothy, of Bexfields, Galleywood, near Chelmsford, in whose 
collection it is now preserved. The Rough-legged Bazzard was shot by 
Mr. David Christy, at Patching Hall, near Chelmsford, on December 19th, 
1879. It was a female, in very good condition. 
Mr. E. A. Fitch said that he had heard of two other specimens of the 
Great Bustard in Essex this winter—one at Manningtree and one at Maldon. 
He also observed that the local papers had reported the specimen described 
by Mr. Christy as occurring at Chelmsford. This was incorrect, as Hull 
Bridge was ten or twelve miles from that town. 
Mr. N. F. Robarts exhibited a molar tooth of Elephas primigenius from 
brick-earth at Lea Valley, Upper Clapton, and specimens of granites and 
lavas used for road-mending by the Woodford Local Board. 
Mr. James English exhibited various species of Fungi and Lichens 
from Epping Forest, with the natural forms wonderfully preserved, and 
many rare species of Lepidoptera taken in the forest during the last thirty 
or forty years. 
Mr. Gould exhibited drawings showing the differences between the Viper 
and the common Ringed Snake. 
Various living organisms under microscopes were exhibited by Messrs. 
F. Oxley, W. Forster, R. Letchford, aud H. Crouch. 
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The Crayfish; an Introduction to the Study of Zoology. By 
T. H. Huxtey, F.R.S. 8vo. London: Kegan Paul & Co. 
1880. 
In this, the latest addition to Messrs. Kegan Paul's “ Inter- 
national Scientific Series,” Prof. Huxley has set himself the 
accomplishment of no easy task—viz., to show, as we learn from 
his preface, ‘‘ how the careful study of one of the commonest and 
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