148 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
very curious place indeed, prepared and fitted up by one man, whose name 
is James Potter, a self-trained naturalist. Numerous animals, birds, and 
insects, all caught and stuffed by Potter himself, and made up into striking or 
grotesque groups, were round the room. There is a ‘ kittens’ croquet party,’ 
a ‘squirrels’ carouse,’ a cricket match played by guinea-pigs, and other scenes, 
wonderfully lifelike, and all sweet and clean and pleasant to look upon, 
which is quite a new feature in connection with stuffed animals. ‘I 
suppose,’ said I, ‘many of these creatures are only made up?’ ‘ Oh, no, 
sir,’ said Potter, ‘they are all real. I was obliged to have them alive, or 
I could not have given them the expression.’ There were some capital 
Herons and Kingfishers, caught close by.” 
A large sand-bank about two miles from Dorking, just below 
the hill leading from Westgate, will be found “full of Martins’ 
nests—many colonies of Martins may be seen in this part of the 
country, but this is one of the largest and most conveniently placed 
for purposes of observation” (p. 158). 
Although Mr. Jennings has limited his expeditions chiefly to 
the two home counties included in the title of his book, he has 
nevertheless favoured his readers with notes of peregrinations in 
the adjacent county of Kent and down the Wye from Ross to 
Chepstow. It is in Surrey and Sussex, however, that the 
author’s strength will principally be found to lie, and of what 
character are the scenery and general aspect of a region the 
nearest, and in the main most accessible from, the densely 
populated metropolis is best told in his own words :— 
“The road throughout this walk leads on through woodland and common, 
by paths bordered with fir trees, or passing over hills beneath which a great 
part of the Wealds of Surrey and Sussex lie extended before the traveller. 
By far the larger proportion of the land through which he must pass, is 
uncultivated. Considering the small size of the county of Surrey, the 
extent of it which lies a mere wilderness in these busy days is simply 
amazing. The whole county is but twenty-seven miles in length, and not 
more than forty in breadth, yet it contains almost every variety of sceuery, 
scarcely one mile is like another, and often the whole character of the 
country undergoes an utter change within the space of half-a-dozen miles. 
Where, out of Scotland, can be found such moors and heaths as those 
between Thursley and Hindhead, or even between Albury and Ewhurst? 
Many of the commons or downs are familiar to excursionists, but the heaths 
in the more distant and neglected parts of the county are little visited. 
